'Indicative' definitions:
Definition of 'indicative'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements; "indicative mood" [syn: indicative, declarative]
adjective
(usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly; "actions indicative of fear" [syn: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive]
noun
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]
Definition of 'Indicative'
From: GCIDE
- Indicative \In*dic"a*tive\, a. [L. indicativus: cf. F. indicatif.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious. [1913 Webster]
- That truth is productive of utility, and utility indicative of truth, may be thus proved. --Bp. Warburton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Fine Arts) Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 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? [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Indicative'
From: GCIDE
- Indicative \In*dic"a*tive\, n. (Gram.) The indicative mood. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'indicative'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- allusory,
- angelophanic,
- appearing,
- associational,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- augural,
- authentic,
- based on,
- certain,
- characteristic,
- Christophanic,
- 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,
- Satanophanic,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- showing,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- subjunctive,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- sure,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- theophanic,
- transferred,
- typical,
- valid,
- warning,
- weighty
Words containing 'Indicative'
- Indical,
- Indicant,
- Indicate,
- Indicated,
- Indicating,
- Indication,
- Indicatively,
- Indicator,
- Indice,
- Indices,
- Indicible,
- indic,
- Counter indication,
- Fare indicator,
- Indicated power,
- Indicative mood,
- Indicator card,
- Indicator diagram,
- Indicator telegraph,
- Speed indicator,
- Torsion indicator,
- absorption indicator,
- flight indicator,
- fuel indicator,
- indicator lamp,
- leading indicator,
- theory of indicators,
- turn indicator,
- Indicated horse power,
- Low water indicator,
- indicative significative suggestive,
- ostwald's theory of indicators,
- acid-base indicator,
- oxidation-reduction indicator