Synonyms for INDICATIVE
ɪnˈdɪk ə tɪvin·dica·tive

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1. indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact moodadjective

   a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

   Synonyms:
   common mood, declarative mood, indicative, declarative, fact mood, indicative mood

   Antonyms:
   concealing

2. indicative, declarativeadjective

   relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements

   "indicative mood"

   Synonyms:
   suggestive, indicatory, revelatory, asserting(a), declaratory, significative, declarative, indicative

   Antonyms:
   concealing

3. indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestiveadjective

   (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly

   "actions indicative of fear"

   Synonyms:
   apocalyptical, suggestive, apocalyptic, indicatory, revelatory, indicative, significative, declarative, implicative

   Antonyms:
   concealing

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1. indicativeadjective

   Synonyms:
   significant, to be taken as a sign

2. indicativeadjective

   Synonyms:
   (Gram.) affirmative

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1. List of paraphrases for "indicative":

   illustrative, tentative, informative, designator, timing, segregated, revealing, symptomatic, soft, guiding, directorial

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1. Jim Ritterbusch:

   We ... view the strong curve as indicative of tightening balances in which upcoming Saudi production cuts are more than offsetting increased demand concerns related to the coronavirus.

2. Michael Arone:

   Even today with lighter volumes and high absenteeism, gold has breached $1,500 and energy stocks are starting to rise a little bit, it's hard to take too much away on a day like today. But to me it's indicative of this idea that potentially you could have an inflation scare in 2020 and perhaps investors are beginning to position themselves for such a scare.

3. Lawrence Brown:

   The support for Trump is indicative of the support for the type of policies he is advocating.

4. Larry Krasner:

   That is indicative of what we’ve been talking about for a very, very long time, which is how a cash bail system utterly fails us.

5. Robert Graham:

   It's indicative of communication between Trump, the health organization and the bank outside these servers, there is some sort of connection I can't explain, and only they are doing it. It could be completely innocent.