implicative
- adjective
- /ɪmˈplɪkətɪv/
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implicativo
- Her comments were implicative of deeper issues that needed to be addressed.
Examples
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His father is shy, turning away from the camera, turning away from Eddie not out of any dislike in particular for him, but because he always turns, always has turned, away from even the merest implicative reference to sex, and Eddie's presence is an implication.
Fiction book (1993) -
Murnau's camera is less like an unseen character in the drama, however, than like a visual narrator whose point of view makes itself felt as a consciousness distinct from the characters: a consciousness that becomes bound up with our own through the implicative subjectivity.
Academic text (1993) -
Well, it's implicative, but it's true.
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But perhaps enough has been said to make the point: in what we are pleased to call the real world, "meaning," "identity," "power," and "experience" are hopelessly entangled, mutually implicative, and "religion" can no more be founded upon or reduced to the last, that is, "experience," than it can to any of the others.
Academic text (1999) -
Whereas the death of Jesus is regarded as a historical event witnessed by a multitude of people, the Resurrection is accessible only through a hermeneutics of testimony, an auto-implicative witnessing.
Academic text (2006) -
The artist's work is often implicative, inviting viewers to think more profoundly about societal norms.
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In his quiet way, the teacher was implicative, suggesting that students should explore the answers on their own.
Synonyms
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5.2
Making you think of something without saying it directly
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4.3
Saying or doing something without being clear
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8.1
Mentioning other people, events, or books in an indirect way
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7.4
Suggesting extra ideas or feelings beyond the main meaning
Antonyms
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Etymology
Implicative comes from the same root as imply, from Latin parts in- 'in' and plicare 'to fold'. Think of an idea being 'folded' into your words instead of said clearly, and that's why something implicative hints or suggests rather than states directly.