implicative
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- implicatively adverb
- nonimplicative adjective
- nonimplicatively adverb
Etymology
Origin of implicative
Example Sentences
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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
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