About The Word Indicative
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Indicative
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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