Indicative

a.	1.
	1.	Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious. That truth is productive of utility, and utility indicative of truth, may be thus proved. - Bp. Warburton.
	2.	(Fine Arts) Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc. Indicative mood (Gram.) that mood or form of the verb which indicates, that is, which simply affirms or denies or inquires; as, he writes; he is not writing; has the mail arrived?
n.	1.	(Gram.) The indicative mood.

Noun	1.	indicative - a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact Synonyms: common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative mood
Adj.	1.	indicative - relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple declarative statements; "indicative mood" Synonyms: declarative
	2.	indicative - (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly; "actions indicative of fear" Synonyms: indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive

Christophanic, Satanophanic, absolute, adducible, admissible, allegorical, allusive, allusory, angelophanic, appearing, associational, attestative, attestive, augural, authentic, based on, certain, characteristic, circumstantial, conclusive, conditional, connotational, connotative, convincing, cumulative, damning, decisive, definable, demonstrating, demonstrative, denominative, denotational, denotative, designative, determinative, diagnostic, disclosive, displaying, documentary, documented, emblematic, epiphanic, evidential, evidentiary, evincive, ex parte, exhibitive, expositional, expository, expressive, extended, extensional, eye-witness, factual, figural, figurative, final, firsthand, forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretokening, forewarning, founded on, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, grounded on, hearsay, heavy with meaning, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, imperative, implicational, implicative, implicatory, implicit, incarnating, incarnational, incontrovertible, indicating, indicatory, indisputable, individual, inferential, insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, intuitive, ironic, irrefutable, irresistible, jussive, manifestative, material, materializing, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, mode, monitory, mood, naming, nuncupative, obligative, optative, overwhelming, pathognomonic, peculiar, permissive, pithy, pneumatophanic, pointed, potential, precursive, precursory, predictive, prefigurative, pregnant, preindicative, premonitory, presageful, presaging, presentational, presumptive, probative, prognostic, prognosticative, promulgatory, readable, referential, reliable, representative, revelational, revelatory, semantic, semiotic, sententious, showing, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, subjunctive, substantial, suggestive, sure, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, telling, theophanic, transferred, typical, valid, warning, weighty

Definitions Index: # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

About this site and copyright information - Online Dictionary Home - Privacy Policy