Suggestive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suggestive \Sug*gest"ive\, a.
     Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation. --
     {Sug*gest"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Sug*gest"ive*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  suggestive
       adj 1: tending to suggest or imply; "artifacts suggestive of an
              ancient society"; "an implicative statement" [syn: {implicational},
               {implicative}, {suggestive of(p)}]
       2: (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing
          clearly;  "actions indicative of fear" [syn: {indicative},
           {indicatory}, {revelatory}, {significative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  161 Moby Thesaurus words for "suggestive":
     absolute, adducible, admissible, allegorical, allusive, allusory,
     associational, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, bawdy,
     blue, broad, certain, circumstantial, conclusive, connotational,
     connotative, convincing, cumulative, damning, decisive, definable,
     demonstrative, denominative, denotational, denotative, designative,
     determinative, diagnostic, dirty, documentary, documented, earthy,
     emblematic, erotic, evidential, evidentiary, evocative, ex parte,
     exhibitive, expressive, extended, extensional, eye-witness,
     factual, figural, figurative, final, firsthand, founded on,
     full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, graphic,
     grounded on, hearsay, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic,
     imaginative, immodest, implicational, implicative, implicatory,
     implicit, improper, in retrospect, incontrovertible, indecent,
     indelicate, indicating, indicative, indicatory, indisputable,
     individual, inferential, insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory,
     intelligible, intensional, interpretable, ironic, irrefutable,
     irresistible, lewd, lusty, material, meaning, meaningful, meaty,
     memoried, metaphorical, mindful, mnemonic, naming, naughty,
     nuncupative, off color, off-color, offensive, overwhelming,
     pathognomonic, peculiar, pithy, pointed, pornographic, pregnant,
     presumptive, probative, provocative, prurient, purple, racy,
     raunchy, readable, redolent, referential, reliable, remindful,
     reminiscent, representative, retentive, retrospective, ribald,
     risky, risque, rude, salacious, salty, scabrous, semantic,
     semiotic, sententious, sexy, shady, signalizing, significant,
     significative, signifying, smutty, spicy, substantial,
     suggestive of, sure, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological,
     symptomatic, symptomatologic, telling, transferred, typical,
     unseemly, valid, vivid, vulgar, weighty, wicked