Synonyms for suggestive
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : suh g-jes-tiv, suh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : səgˈdʒɛs tɪv, sə- |
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Définition of suggestive
Origin :- 1630s, "conveying a hint," from suggest + -ive. Specifically as a faintly euphemistic reference to proposals of indecent behavior, from 1888. Related: Suggestively; suggestiveness.
- adj signifying
- adj dirty, vulgar
- His whole appearance was suggestive of the shady side of life.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- Applied to the literary history of a race, this principle is suggestive.
- Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
- Such aberration can only be explained by suggestive influence on the part of men.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- A hypnotizer may abuse his suggestive power to exploit the love of the hypnotized.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- All things in which there is opposition or proportion are suggestive of reflection.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Its name is suggestive of Columbia, and our country is often called by that name.
- Extract from : « Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia » by Various
- Thrasymachus, I said to him, excellent man, how suggestive are your remarks!
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- But I will proceed to the other speech, which, as I think, is also suggestive to students of rhetoric.
- Extract from : « Phaedrus » by Plato
- I could feel its every motion with startling and suggestive distinctness.
- Extract from : « The Universal Reciter » by Various
- So insatiable a thing it is and so suggestive of mad fantasy.
- Extract from : « The Symposium » by Xenophon
Antonyms for suggestive
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