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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Suggestive \Sug*gest"ive\, adjective Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation. -- {Sug*gest"ive*ly}, adverb -- {Sug*gest"ive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
suggestive
adjective
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
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