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Definitions: Indicative |
IndicativeAdjective1. (grammar) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple declarative statements; "indicative mood". 2. Having a covert or special meaning. Noun1. A mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "indicative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | That indicates; that points out more or less exactly; that reveals fairly clearly. (references) |
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Synonyms: IndicativeSynonyms: significative (adj), suggestive (adj), common mood (n), declarative (n), declarative mood (n), fact mood (n), indicative mood (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evidence | Adjective: showing; Verb: indicative, indicatory; deducible; grounded on, founded on, based on; corroborative, confirmatory. |
Indication | Adjective: indicating; Verb:, indicative, indicatory; denotative, connotative; diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic, pathognomonic, symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative, diagnostic, exponential, emblematic, armorial; individual; (special). |
Intrinsicality | Characteristic; (special), (indicative); invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | A suppurative disease caused by Gram-positive endogenous oral bacteria of the family Actinomycetaceae. Note the fibrotic, thick-walled abscess formation, and presence of granulation tissue indicative of a chronic inflammatory process.Credit: CDC. |  | A bottom temperature map published in "Three Cruises of the Blake", Alexander Agassiz, 1888. p. 218. The majority of these temperatures were obtained by the CHALLENGER Expedition. The cold pool in the southwest Atlantic Ocean is indicative of no communication between the southwest and southeast Atlantic basins as the result of an obstruction - the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Child of agricultural day laborer living near Tullahassee, Oklahoma. Notice the distended stomach, which is indicative of malnutrution and unbalanced diet with too many starchy foods. This condition is prevalent throughout the tenant farmer and day labori.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Child of tenant farmer. Notice distended stomach, indicative of malnutrition. Near Warner, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A white protuberance may be indicative of an older, more organized process. (references) | |
The stethoscope also picks up the abnormal heart sounds indicative of heart failure. (references) | ||
Laboratory findings indicative of ehrlichiosis include leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and elevated liver enzymes. (references) | ||
Business | Furthermore, the increase in tourism developments in the St. Lucia Wetlands is indicative of the rising popularity of eco-tourism in South Africa. (references) | |
If there is a disproportionately large number of bidders, the TLB will attempt to short-list three or four bidders in a single process, with bidders invited to submit an outline or indicative proposal to help in the short-listing process. (references) | ||
The percentage of U.S imports in this category is not indicative of overall U.S. market share, because major equipment such as pumps or monitoring equipment imported for environmental projects would be registered at Customs under another category. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hungary | This list is not exhaustive, but indicative only. (references) |
New Zealand | This trend is indicative of a country moving from an agricultural based economy to a manufacturing and service economy. (references) | |
Ireland | An indicative $0.54 billion (64%) will be invested in the S&E Region and an indicative $0.31 billion (36%) in the BMW Region. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malawi | The Inspectorate of Prisons is an investigative body mandated by the Constitution, and the findings of its 2000 report are considered indicative of prison conditions by domestic and international nongovernmental organizations (NGO's). (references) |
Political Economy | BULGARIA | The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) sets an indicative daily Dollar rate (based on the dollar/euro exchange rate) for statistical and customs purposes, but commercial banks and others licensed to trade on the interbank market are free to set their own rates. (references) |
Trade | Moldova | This supplement to the customs regulations indicates the indicative prices for a variety of imported goods. (references) |
Travel | Nigeria | Any invitation to enter Nigeria without a visa is indicative of illegal activity. (references) |
Worker Rights | Korea | While limited in detail, this information is nonetheless indicative of the human rights situation in North Korea today. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Indicative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.20% of the time. "Indicative" is used about 502 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.2% | 498 | 12,078 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.8% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 502 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "indicative": be indicative of ♦ be indicative of smth. ♦ indicative abstract ♦ indicative mood ♦ indicative of ♦ indicative price ♦ indicative significative suggestive ♦ Indicative statement ♦ the indicative. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "indicative": non-indicative. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
indicative | 6 |
indicative mood tx | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "indicative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | aantonende wys (indicative mood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tregues (denotative, denotement, directive, evidence, exponential, hand, index, indicator, indicatory, indices, Mark, narrative, pointer, symptomatic), dëshmues (evidential, probative, testimonial), dëftor (demonstrative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الفعل الدلالي, الصيغة الدلالية, إشاري (signal), دلالي, دال على (symptomatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който показва (indicatory), показателен (demonstrative, enlightening, evincible, exponential, indicatory, significant, symptomatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 表示 (Denote, Denoted, Denoting, expression, Indicatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | indikativ, oznamovací zpùsob. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | indikativ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | indicatief (indicative mood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | indikativo (indicative mood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | indikatiivi, merkitsevä (expressive, significant, suggestive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | indicatif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hinweisend (advertent, auf pointing, demonstrative, pointing out), anzeigend (denunciative, indicating, indicatively, signaling), Indikativ (indicative mood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ενδεικτικόσ (indicatory, notional), οριστική, δηλωτικόσ (declarative, declaratory, indicatory, predicative, significative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעי" על, מצין (characteristic, indicator, marker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mutató (cursor, evidential of sg, hand, index, indicator, indicatory, needle, pointer, sample, table), jelzõ (attributive, marker), jelentõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | waktu sekarang (now). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | indicativo (approximate, showing, significative, suggestive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 表示物 (something indicative of), 直説法 (direct method, indicative mood), 直接法 (direct method, indicative mood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひょうじぶつ (something indicative of), ちょくせつほう (direct method, indicative mood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 직설법. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cowreydagh (characteristic, emblematic, emblematical, impressive, sign, significant, symbolic, symptomatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | indikativo (indicative mood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indicativeay indicativo (call letters, call sign, code, denotative, distinguish, evidentiary, evincive, identification, indicatory, significant, significative, symptomatic). (various references) indicativ, grãitor (convincing, eloquent, graphic, graphical, graphically, illustrative, persuasive, telling). (various references) указывающий (denotative, directive, indicatory, significative), изъявительный. (various references) á (prep. out of. Note: the mark over `a' is not indicative of). (various references) indikativan (evincive), indikativ, koji pokazuje, koji nagoveštava. (various references) indicativo (code). (various references) indikativform, indikativ (indicative mood). (various references) haber kipi, gösteren, bildirme kipi, bildiren (declarative), belirten (determinative, diacritic). (various references) що вказу", дійсний спосіб, дійсний (absolute, active, actual, authentic, available, objective, operative, real, valid). (various references) ra ý, ngụ ý (implied, overtone, sentiment), chỉ tỏ ra, biểu lộ (exhibitive, speaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "indicative": indicatively, indicatives. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "indicative": vindicative. (additional references) | |
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"Indicative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indicatif, indicitive, Iniciativa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "indicative" (pronounced i'ndi"kutiv) |
| 6 | -i" k u t i v | duplicative. |
| 5 | -k u t i v | communicative, evocative, provocative, talkative. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, comparative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-i-n-t-v" | |
-1 letter: dietician, vindicate. | |
-2 letters: actinide, cavitied, ctenidia, inactive, indicate, vanitied, vaticide. | |
-3 letters: deviant, identic, incited, indicia, inedita, invited, venatic. | |
-4 letters: acetin, active, advect, advent, advice, avidin, cadent, canted, centai, citied, dative, decant, detain, divine, enatic, incite, indict, indite, invade, invite, native, tineid, viatic. | |
-5 letters: acini, acned, acted, actin, anted, antic, cadet, caned, canid, caved, cavie, cited. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-i-n-t-v" | |
+1 letter: indicatives, vindicative. | |
+2 letters: indicatively. | |
+4 letters: discriminative. | |
+5 letters: devitrification, diversification, underactivities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 64 69 63 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.. .. -.-. .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n d i c a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0064 0069 0063 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43807075696786758871 |
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