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Indicative

Indicative Meaning & Definition
Indicative Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Indicative?

[n] a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
[adj] having a covert or special meaning
[adj] (grammar) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple declarative statements; "indicative mood"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Indicative: common mood | declarative | declarative | declarative mood | fact mood | indicative mood | meaningful | significative | suggestive

Related Terms | Find terms related to Indicative: 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

See Also | modality | mode | mood

Indicative In Webster's Dictionary

\In*dic"a*tive\, a. [L. indicativus: cf. F. indicatif.] 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?
\In*dic"a*tive\, n. (Gram.) The indicative mood.

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