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Suggestive   /səgdʒˈɛstɪv/   Listen
Suggestive

adjective
1.
Tending to suggest or imply.  Synonym: implicative.  "An implicative statement"
2.
(usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly.  Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative.
3.
Tending to suggest something improper or indecent.  "Suggestive poses"





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"Suggestive" Quotes from Famous Books



... see anything new and strikin' in the way of Society badges and regalia, to let him know about it, for he said the C.S.S. was goin' to take a decided stand and show their colors. They wuz goin' to help protect his women endangered sect, an' he wanted sunthin' showy and suggestive. ...
— Samantha on the Woman Question • Marietta Holley
... broadly built and powerful. His whole personality was suggestive of squareness. And yet to Piers' critical eyes he did not look wholly British. His gait was that of a man accustomed to long hours in the saddle. Under the turned-down Panama the square, determined chin showed massively. It was a chin ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... the somewhat eruptive appearance of the yellow blotches on its scales, a closely allied species, similarly spotted, formerly obtained amongst naturalists the name of Monitor exanthemata, and it is curious that the native appellation of this one, Kabra[3], is suggestive of the same idea. The Singhalese, on a strictly homoeopathic principle, believe that its fat, externally applied, is a cure for cutaneous disorders, but that inwardly taken it is poisonous.[4] It is one of the incidents which seem to indicate that Ceylon belongs to a separate ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... at this, on the spot, all intensity. "Ah do describe that more—it's so interesting. There are no such suggestive questions. I'm so fond of them. He thinks he's a failure—fancy!" she ...
— The Lesson of the Master • Henry James
... who sings his one song, when feeling that death is near, Mr. Willson gave his brother co-workers in the Theosophical field all that was best, ripest and most suggestive in his thought in the series of articles the last of which is to come out in the same number ...
— Ancient and Modern Physics • Thomas E. Willson


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