Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gesticulate
Participle: gesticulated
Gerund: gesticulating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gesticulate |
| you | gesticulate |
| he;she;it | gesticulates |
| we | gesticulate |
| you | gesticulate |
| they | gesticulate |
Perfect
| I | have gesticulated |
| you | have gesticulated |
| he;she;it | has gesticulated |
| we | have gesticulated |
| you | have gesticulated |
| they | have gesticulated |
Past
| I | gesticulated |
| you | gesticulated |
| he;she;it | gesticulated |
| we | gesticulated |
| you | gesticulated |
| they | gesticulated |
Pluperfect
| I | had gesticulated |
| you | had gesticulated |
| he;she;it | had gesticulated |
| we | had gesticulated |
| you | had gesticulated |
| they | had gesticulated |
Future
| I | will gesticulate |
| you | will gesticulate |
| he;she;it | will gesticulate |
| we | will gesticulate |
| you | will gesticulate |
| they | will gesticulate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gesticulated |
| you | will have gesticulated |
| he;she;it | will have gesticulated |
| we | will have gesticulated |
| you | will have gesticulated |
| they | will have gesticulated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gesticulate |
| you | gesticulate |
| he;she;it | gesticulate |
| we | gesticulate |
| you | gesticulate |
| they | gesticulate |
Perfect
| I | have gesticulated |
| you | have gesticulated |
| he;she;it | have gesticulated |
| we | have gesticulated |
| you | have gesticulated |
| they | have gesticulated |
Imperfect
| I | gesticulated |
| you | gesticulated |
| he;she;it | gesticulated |
| we | gesticulated |
| you | gesticulated |
| they | gesticulated |
Pluperfect
| I | had gesticulated |
| you | had gesticulated |
| he;she;it | had gesticulated |
| we | had gesticulated |
| you | had gesticulated |
| they | had gesticulated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gesticulate |
| you | would gesticulate |
| he;she;it | would gesticulate |
| we | would gesticulate |
| you | would gesticulate |
| they | would gesticulate |
Perfect
| I | would have gesticulated |
| you | would have gesticulated |
| he;she;it | would have gesticulated |
| we | would have gesticulated |
| you | would have gesticulated |
| they | would have gesticulated |
Imperative
| you | gesticulate |
| we | Let's gesticulate |
| you | gesticulate |
Verbs conjugated like 'gesticulate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gesticulate'
destimulate,
geniculate,
graticulate,
restimulate,
restipulate,
reticulate,
vesiculate,
articulate,
astipulate,
costimulate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1601, from pp. stem of L.
gesticulari "to gesture, mimic," from
gesticulus "a mimicking gesture," dim. of
gestus "gesture, carriage, posture" (see gest).
2. Borrowed from Latin gesticulātus, perfect active participle of gesticulor (“to gesticulate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from gesticulus (“a mimic gesture”), diminutive of gestus (“gesture”), from gerō (“to bear, carry, perform”).
Verbs referencing "gesticulate"
Polish
gestykulować.
Sample Sentences
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A "Haka" is the native dance, answering to the corroboree of the Australian aboriginals, and we were anxious to see it. […] Later in the evening, however, the complaisant Herekiekie entertained a small and select party at a "Haka" in his "whare" or house (pronounced wharry). It was exactly what I expected. The performers, all male, stood in a row, one, slightly advanced, acting as fugleman. They shouted and gesticulated with the most hideous and revolting gestures, grimaces, and yells. [1876 January 26, “A Week among the Maoris of Lake Taupo”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XXXIII, number 193, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, →OCLC, page 65:]
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... groups of dancers were wheeling, plunging, and gesticulating while the ogre, more aphasic than before, mumbled at full strength ... [1954, Kingsley Amis, chapter 12, in Lucky Jim:]
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He's delusional, and obsessed with a girl named Claire, and he says such things as: "I know she loves me, she just doesn't know it yet." And he gesticulates wildly, as though he were a fop in the court of Louis XIV. [2005 January 30, Ariel Love, “Half empty”, in The Guardian:]
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[…]the TV programme Friends is influencing not only the way Irish people speak but also how they gesticulate. Now almost every utterance is accompanied by arms outstretched and palms turned upwards." [2004 December 6, Irish Times:]