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adjective

Indicative adj.

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."

(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?

noun

Indicative n. (Gram.) The indicative mood.

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Etymology of 'Indicative'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... group of young people, and it was indicative of his nature that there was no pause in the conversation or appearance of constraint ...

— The Come Back • Carolyn Wells

... restless Traders' Club, where the precise corridors and columns and walls and ceilings of white marble were indicative of great formality, men with creases in their brows wore their derbies on the backs of their heads and ceaselessly talked shop. Mr. Trimmer, more creased of brow than any of them, was drifting from group to group with his eyes ...

— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester

... personal magnetism in operation requires NONE of these talents, except, perhaps, telepathy and genuine palmistry— the study of hands as indicative physiologically (not occultly) of present character ...

— Mastery of Self • Frank Channing Haddock

... Hamilton's unpopular integrity and Henry Clay's unprincipled bidding for popular favor. The greatest American political leaders have been popular without any personal capitulation; and their success is indicative of what is theoretically the most wholesome relation between individual political liberty and a democratic distribution of effective political power. The highest and most profitable individual political distinction is that which is won from a large field and from a whole people. Political, even ...

— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly

... remaining three are of active verbs only. The time-forms of the verb are three, the present, the aorist, and the future. Taking the verb nacal, to ascend, these forms are nacal, naci, nacac. The present indicative is:— ...

— The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various

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