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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 \Indic"ative\, 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? \Indic"ative\, n. (Gram.) The indicative mood.

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"

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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