Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to suggest; evocative.
- adjective Stimulating further thought.
- adjective Conveying a hint or suggestion.
- adjective Calling to mind sexual desire or sex acts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing a suggestion or hint; suggesting what does not appear on the surface; also, full of suggestion; stimulating reflection.
- Of the nature of, or pertaining to, hypnotic suggestion.
- noun Something intended to suggest ideas to the mind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
suggest orimply . - adjective Suggesting
romance ,sex , etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly
- adjective tending to suggest something improper or indecent
- adjective tending to suggest or imply
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Examples
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Is it a term suggestive of the wisdom or the ignorance of those to whom it is applied?
Memorabilia 2007
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Possibly, if the thing became too pensive and soulful altogether, he might give it some title suggestive of the absent lover at the bull-fight -- "The Toreador's Bride" -- or something of that sort.
The Coming of Bill 1928
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Is it a term suggestive of the wisdom or the ignorance of those to whom it is applied?
The Memorabilia 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" had a religious moral, as well as a title suggestive of religious ideas.
The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes George Gilfillan 1845
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King zeroed in on what he called suggestive or idea planting questions the mother asked.
WTVC NewsChannel 9: Chattanooga News, Weather, Radar, Sports, Lottery : News John Madewell 2010
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King zeroed in on what he called suggestive or idea planting questions the mother asked.
WTVC NewsChannel 9: Chattanooga News, Weather, Radar, Sports, Lottery : News John Madewell 2010
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The two-volume, 1,055-page book takes place in Tokyo in the year 1Q84, a title suggestive of George Orwell's "1984" as the Japanese word for 9 is pronounced like the English letter
Reuters: Top News 2009
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And it's a term suggestive if the name of the leftist group,
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In May, he published the two-volume, 1,055-page novel "1Q84," a title suggestive of George Orwell's "1984" as the Japanese word for 9 is pronounced the same as the English letter
Reuters: Top News 2009
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Thus, the parallel between Newton and Einstein, and Darwin and Woese, while suggestive, is inaccurate.
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