Referential

a.

1.

Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use.

Adj.

1.

referential - referring or pointing to something; "symbols are inherently referential"

allegorical, allusive, allusory, associational, connotational, connotative, definable, denotational, denotative, expressive, extended, extensional, figurative, figured, flowery, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, implicational, implicative, implicatory, indicative, inferential, insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, ironic, mannered, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, ornamented, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable, sententious, significant, significative, substantial, suggestive, symbolic, transferred, trolatitious, tropological