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implicative

[ im-pli-key-tiv, im-plik-uh-tiv ]

adjective

  1. tending to implicate or imply; characterized by or involving implication.


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Other Word Forms

  • p·t· adverb
  • ԴDz·p·t adjective
  • non·p·t· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of implicative1

First recorded in 1580–90; implicate + -ive
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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.

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But this music is so implicative on so many levels.

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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.

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