implicative

[im-pli-key-tiv, im-plik-uh-tiv]

adjective

1. tending to implicate or imply; characterized by or involving implication.

Other Word Forms

• implicatively adverb
• nonimplicative adjective
• nonimplicatively adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of implicative¹

First recorded in 1580–90; implicate + -ive

Example Sentences

But up until the final scenes, when every tension flares unambiguously into the open, Kusijanović assuredly avoids the obvious, instead telling her story with deft, implicative strokes: meaningful glances, offhand dialogue and insinuating body language.

From Los Angeles Times

But this music is so implicative on so many levels.

From Seattle Times

This might be supplemented, perhaps, also with the limitation that the sympathy must be correct, profound, and implicative, for external, approximate, or inverted sympathy will obviously not do.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• constant 
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• definite 
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