indicative

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈdɪk.ə.tɪv/ (US)

Definition of indicative

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something.
    “He had pains indicative of a heart attack.”
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adj

  1. Serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something.
    “He had pains indicative of a heart attack.”
  2. Of, or relating to the indicative mood.

noun

  1. (uncountable)The indicative mood.
  2. (countable)A term in the indicative mood.
    “The fact that imperative forms were taken into English as indicatives suggests that the English speakers using the Hindustani verbs were most familiar (in some cases perhaps only familiar) with the imperative form.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle French indicatif, from Late Latin indicātīvus. By surface analysis, indicate + -ive.

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