suggestive
The adjective suggestive is useful when one thing indicates or hints at something else. Your constant yawning, for example, is suggestive of how tired you are.
Scientists and researchers often use the word suggestive to describe results that indicate a strong possibility of something without decisively proving it: "This is suggestive evidence of life on other planets." Sometimes, suggestive is used to describe something inappropriate or obscene: "Parents always think popular music's lyrics are too suggestive." This meaning came about in the late 1800's, more than two hundred years after suggestive first appeared in the language from the verb suggest.
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tending to suggest or imply“artifacts suggestive of an ancient society”synonyms: implicativeconnotativehaving the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit
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(usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearlysynonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significativerevealingshowing or making known
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tending to suggest something improper or indecent“a suggestive nod”synonyms:indecentoffensive to good taste especially in sexual matters
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Vocabulary lists containing suggestive
Darius has always struggled to fit in: he suffers from depression, he is bullied at school, and he can never seem to meet his father's high expectations. When Darius's family travels to Iran to visit his grandparents, Darius finds a place where he belongs, and a true friendship, for the first time.
Arthur and Ben couldn't be more different. Arthur, a Jewish teenager from Georgia, is in New York City for a summer internship that he hopes will help him get into an Ivy League college. Ben, a native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, is attending summer school so that he can avoid repeating 11th grade. Find out what happens when a series of coincidences brings these two together.
In the 1950s, a Chinese-American teenager falls in love while members of her San Francisco community face threats of deportation.