suggestive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sug=ges=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

suggestive, a. 

 Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

suggestive, adj.
1 (usu. foll. by of) conveying a suggestion; evocative.
2 (esp. of a remark, joke, etc.) indecent; improper.

Derivative

suggestively adv. suggestiveness n.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

suggestive

Description

N description, account, statement, report, expose, specification, particulars, state of facts, summary of facts, brief, return, catalogue raisonne, guidebook, delineation, sketch, monograph, minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account, narration, recital, rehearsal, relation, historiography, chronography, historic Muse, Clio, history, biography, autobiography, necrology, obituary, narrative, history, memoir, memorials, annals, saga, tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette, personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions, anecdote, ana, trait, work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press, fairy tale, nursery tale, fable, parable, apologue, dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator, raconteur, historian, biographer, fabulist, novelist, descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn, historic, traditional, traditionary, legendary, anecdotic, storied, described, furor scribendi.

Memory

N memory, remembrance, retention, retentiveness, tenacity, veteris vestigia flammae, tablets of the memory, readiness, reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration, recurrence, flashback, retrospect, retrospection, afterthought, post script, PS, suggestion, prompting, hint, reminder, remembrancer, flapper, memorial, commemoration, note, memo, memorandum, things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir, keepsake, relic, memorabilia, art of memory, artificial memory, memoria technica, mnemonics, mnemotechnics, phrenotypics, Mnemosyne, prompt-book, crib sheet, cheat sheet, retentive memory, tenacious memory, photographic memory, green memory, trustworthy memory, capacious memory, faithful memory, correct memory, exact memory, ready memory, prompt memory, accurate recollection, perfect memory, total recall, celebrity, fame, renown, reputation, remembering, remembered, mindful, reminiscential, retained in the memory, pent up in one's memory, fresh, green, green in remembrance, unforgotten, present to the mind, within one's memory, indelible, uppermost in one's thoughts, memorable, by heart, by rote, without book, memoriter, in memory of, in memoriam, memoria in aeterna, suggestive, manet alta mente repostum, forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit, absens haeres non erit, beatae memoriae, briefly thyself remember, mendacem memorem esse oportet, memory the warder of the brain, parsque est meminisse doloris, to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die, vox audita peril littera scripta manet, out of sight, out of mind.

Supposition

N supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory, thesis, theorem, data, proposition, position, proposal, presumption, divination, conjecture, guess, guesswork, speculation, rough guess, shot, shot in the dark, conjecturality, surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, estimate, approximation (nearness), inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression, bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion, association of ideas, (analogy), metonym, metonymy, simile (metaphor), conceit, idea, thought, original idea, invention (imagination), supposing, given, mooted, postulatory, assumed, supposititious, suppositive, suppositious, gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative, suppositional, suggestive, allusive, if, if so be, an, on the supposition, ex hypothesi, in the case, in the event of, quasi, as if, provided, perhaps, for aught one knows.

Meaning

N meaning, signification, significance, sense, expression, import, purport, force, drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring, scope, substance, gist, essence, marrow, spirit, matter, subject, subject matter, argument, text, sum and substance, general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true meaning, honest meaning, &c 543 prima facie meaning, letter of the law, literally, after acceptation, synonym, implication, allusion, suggestion, figure of speech, acceptation, meaning, expressive, suggestive, allusive, significant, significative, significatory, pithy, full of meaning, pregnant with meaning, declaratory, intelligible, literal, synonymous, tantamount, implied, explicit, to that effect, that is to say.