Thesaurus: indicative

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1. a. Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious.
2. a. Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc.
3. n. The indicative mood.
4. adj. relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements
5. adj. (usually followed by ‘of’) pointing out or revealing clearly
6. n. a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
7. 1. Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious. That truth id 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 The indicative mood.
8. Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by aship, a forest by a tree, etc. Indicative mood (Gram.), that mood orform of the verb which indicates, that is, which simply affirms ordenies or inquires; as, he writes; he is not writing; has the mailarrived
9. j:100 a. relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements s. (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly