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1. (adj.) indicative
pointing out; expressive:
behavior indicative of mental disorder.
2. indicative
of or designating the grammatical mood used for ordinary objective statements and questions, as the mood of the verb plays in She plays tennis or were in Were they home?
3. (n.) indicative
the indicative mood.
4. indicative
a verb in the indicative.
Etymology: (1520–30; < LL)
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| Definition of 'indicative' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood
a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
2. (adj) indicative, declarative
relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements
"indicative mood"
3. (adj) indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive
(usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly
"actions indicative of fear"
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| Definition of 'indicative' |
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1. (adj) indicative
pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious
2. (adj) indicative
suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc
3. (noun) indicative
the indicative mood
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Sense: describing verbs which occur as parts of statements and questions
In `I ran home' and `Are you going?'
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 Afrikaans: aanduidend |
 Arabic: صيغَه دَلاليَّه |
 Bulgarian: показателен |
 Brazilian: indicativo |
 Czech: indikativ(ní) |
 German: indikativisch |
 Danish: indikativ |
 Greek: οριστική (γραμμ.) |
 Spanish: indicativo |
 Estonian: kindel kõneviis |
 Farsi: خبری |
 Finnish: indikatiivi |
 French: indicatif |
 Hebrew: מַצבִּיע |
 Hindi: निर्देशक |
 Croatian: indikativan |
 Hungarian: jelentő mód |
 Indonesian: indikatif |
 Icelandic: framsögu- |
 Italian: indicativo |
 Japanese: 直説法の |
 Korean: 직설법(의) |
 Lithuanian: tiesioginė nuosaka |
 Latvian: indikatīvs; īstenības-; ī |
 Malay: menunjukkan |
 Dutch: aantonende wijs |
 Norwegian: indikativ |
 Polish: (tryb) oznajmujący |
 Persian: خبری |
 Pashto: خبری |
 Portuguese: indicativo |
 Romanian: indicativ |
 Russian: изъявительный |
 Slovak: oznamovací spôsob; indika |
 Slovenian: povedni naklon |
 Serbian: pokazni |
 Swedish: indikativ |
 Thai: ซึ่งบ่งบอก |
 Turkish: (bildirme kipinde fiiller |
 Taiwanese: 直述(的) |
 Ukrainian: дійсний |
 Urdu: فعل کی بیانیہ صورت |
 Vietnamese: biểu thị |
 Chinese: （陈述语气的动词形式）陈述的 |
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