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Suggestive

adjective

Tending to suggest or imply. Synonym: implicative. "An implicative statement"

(usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly. Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative.

Tending to suggest something improper or indecent. "Suggestive poses"

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"Suggestive" Quotes from Famous Books

... stimulant, and if the dosage is kept below the danger line, the patient generally recovers. It seems to make very little difference whether the medicine is given in the tiny homeopathic doses, so small that they have only a suggestive effect, or if they are given in doses several hundred times as large by allopaths ...

— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... and went to bed glad of any place wherein to sleep. Next morning we woke up very early, refreshed and joyous, in time to see the sun rise in a warm mist of gold over a huge man-o'-war outside Greenock harbour,—a sight which, in its way, was very fine and rather suggestive ...

— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli

... growing town demanding space for its inhabitants had driven its streets far beyond the Rectory demesne on every side, till now it stood, a green oasis of sheltered loveliness, amid a crowding mass of modern brick dwellings, comfortable enough but arid of beauty and suggestive only of the utilitarian demands ...

— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor

... to her was so suggestive that he trembled, and turned his face away with a shy instinct to prevent her recognizing him, though as she had never once seen him she could not possibly do so; and might very well never have heard even his name. He could perceive that though ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... think. Once at the end of this ridiculous cruise, once at the Lodge door, there would be nothing for it but to turn the cab and trundle back again. Why, then, go so far? why add another feature of suspicion to a case already so suggestive? why not turn at once? It was easy to say, turn; but whither? He had nowhere now to go to; he could never - he saw it in letters of blood - he could never pay that cab; he was saddled with that cab for ever. Oh that cab! his soul yearned and burned, and his bowels sounded to be rid ...

— Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson

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