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referential
CIDE DICTIONARY
referential, a.
Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
referential
allegorical, allusive, allusory, associational, connotational, connotative, definable, denotational, denotative, expressive, extended, extensional, figurative, figured, flowery, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, implicational, implicative, implicatory, indicative, inferential, insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, ironic, mannered, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, ornamented, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable, sententious, significant, significative, substantial, suggestive, symbolic, transferred, trolatitious, tropologicalFor further exploring for "referential" in Webster Dictionary Online