indicative
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
indicative
adj 1: relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in
declarative statements; "indicative mood" [syn:
{indicative}, {declarative}]
2: (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly;
"actions indicative of fear" [syn: {indicative},
{indicatory}, {revelatory}, {significative}, {suggestive}]
n 1: a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or
state as an objective fact [syn: {indicative mood},
{indicative}, {declarative mood}, {declarative}, {common
mood}, {fact mood}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Indicative \In*dic"a*tive\, a. [L. indicativus: cf. F.
indicatif.]
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1. Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or
knowledge of something not visible or obvious.
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That truth is productive of utility, and utility
indicative of truth, may be thus proved. --Bp.
Warburton.
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2. (Fine Arts) Suggestive; representing the whole by a part,
as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc.
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{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?
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
164 Moby Thesaurus words for "indicative":
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
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