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Suggestive

adjective

Tending to suggest or imply. Synonym: implicative. "An implicative statement"

(usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly. Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative.

Tending to suggest something improper or indecent. "Suggestive poses"

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"Suggestive" Quotes from Famous Books

... right and vomits; another, who is intoxicated, lies on the floor by the side of a chair; a fire of wood burns in the grate; on the wall hangs two pictures ... three men's hats hang on pegs on the wall." Altogether this is an interesting and suggestive design, but hardly in the taste likely to commend itself ...

— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson

... on many accounts, to be in contact with a mind so original and suggestive as Mrs. Johnson's. We loved to trace its intricate yet often transparent operations, and were perhaps too fond of explaining its peculiarities by facts of ancestry,—of finding hints of the Pow-wow or the Grand Custom in each grotesque development. We were conscious ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various

... call forth the free activity of the child? One of the arguments of the advocates of the Montessori Method in favour of that system is, that the specially prepared apparatus of that system is itself suggestive of play exercises; and that, by having access to the apparatus, the child may choose the particular exercise which appeals to his free activity at the moment. This supposed superiority of the Montessori apparatus ...

— Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education • Ontario Ministry of Education

... childhood was it made doubly dear to me; the very limitations themselves enforcing and promoting the growth of wonder and healthy imagination. It is this which has kept alive my early memories and made them pleasant and suggestive throughout my life. Nor do I think my experiences peculiar. Sir Henry Wotton in the last years of his life happily expressed the feeling common to men. "Seeing that very place where I sat when I was a boy occasioned me to remember ...

— Confessions of Boyhood • John Albee

... so interested in our friend have not settled down in his own hotel. That means that while they are, as we have seen, very anxious to watch him, they are equally anxious that he should not see them. Now, this is a most suggestive fact." ...

— Hound of the Baskervilles • Authur Conan Doyle

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