Exact Match:
- allusive
- characterized by indirect references; "allusive speech is characterized by allusions"
Related Words:
- inferential
collapse - based on interpretation; not directly expressed
- derived or capable of being derived by inference
- of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
- relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind" related words >
- a fortiori,
- a posteriori,
- a priori,
- allusive,
- allusory,
- analytic,
- categorical,
- conditional,
- deductive,
- dialectic,
- discursive,
- enthymematic,
- epagogic,
- hypothetical,
- implicational,
- implicative,
- implicatory,
- indicative,
- inductive,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- insinuatory,
- ironic,
- maieutic,
- referential,
- soritical,
- suggestive,
- syllogistic,
- synthetic
- adorned,
- allusive,
- beaded,
- bedecked,
- bedizened,
- befrilled,
- bejeweled,
- beribboned,
- bespangled,
- decked out,
- decorated,
- embellished,
- feathered,
- festooned,
- figurative,
- figured,
- flowered,
- flowery,
- garnished,
- jeweled,
- mannered,
- metaphorical,
- plumed,
- referential,
- spangled,
- spangly,
- studded,
- tricked out,
- trimmed,
- trolatitious,
- tropological,
- wreathed
- implicative
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- tending to suggest or imply; "artifacts suggestive of an ancient society"; "an implicative statement" related words >
- allusive,
- allusory,
- connotative,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotative,
- designative,
- diagnostic,
- emblematic,
- evidential,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- figural,
- figurative,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- implicational,
- implicatory,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- inferential,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- insinuatory,
- ironic,
- meaningful,
- metaphorical,
- naming,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- referential,
- representative,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- typical
- referential
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- referring or pointing to something; "symbols are inherently referential" related words >
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- allusory,
- associational,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- figurative,
- figured,
- flowery,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- implicational,
- implicative,
- implicatory,
- indicative,
- inferential,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- insinuatory,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- ironic,
- mannered,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- ornamented,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pregnant,
- readable,
- sententious,
- significant,
- significative,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- transferred,
- trolatitious,
- tropological
- mannered
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- having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- allusive,
- artificial,
- behaved,
- behavioral,
- behaviored,
- behaviorist,
- behavioristic,
- conscious,
- contrived,
- demeanored,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- euphuistic,
- figurative,
- figured,
- flowery,
- high-hat,
- highfalutin,
- histrionic,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperelegant,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- maniere,
- metaphorical,
- ornamented,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- pompous,
- posed,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretentious,
- pseudo,
- referential,
- stagy,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- studied,
- theatrical,
- trolatitious,
- tropological,
- unnatural
- adulatory,
- allusive,
- allusory,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- deferential,
- disarming,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- fulsome,
- gushing,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- implicational,
- implicative,
- implicatory,
- indicative,
- inferential,
- insincere,
- insinuative,
- insinuatory,
- ironic,
- mealymouthed,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- referential,
- saccharine,
- silken,
- silky,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- suggestive,
- sycophantic,
- unctuous,
- wheedling
- figured
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- (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns; "my dress is richly figured"- Amy Lowell related words >
- adorned,
- allusive,
- arranged,
- beaded,
- bedecked,
- bedizened,
- befrilled,
- bejeweled,
- beribboned,
- bespangled,
- blueprinted,
- calculated,
- charted,
- colored,
- contrived,
- decked out,
- decorated,
- designed,
- devised,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- fancy,
- feathered,
- festooned,
- figurative,
- florid,
- flowered,
- flowery,
- garnished,
- in the works,
- jeweled,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- mannered,
- metaphorical,
- methodized,
- on the agenda,
- on the anvil,
- on the calendar,
- on the carpet,
- on the docket,
- on the tapis,
- organized,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- overcharged,
- overloaded,
- planned,
- plotted,
- plumed,
- projected,
- purple,
- rationalized,
- referential,
- scheduled,
- schematized,
- set,
- shaped,
- spangled,
- spangly,
- strategetic,
- strategic,
- studded,
- sur le tapis,
- systematized,
- tactical,
- tricked out,
- trimmed,
- trolatitious,
- tropological,
- worked out,
- wreathed
- metaphorical
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- expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language" related words >
- allegoric,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- anagogic,
- associational,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- definable,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- designative,
- diagnostic,
- emblematic,
- evidential,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- figural,
- figurative,
- figured,
- flowery,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- implicative,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- mannered,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- naming,
- ornamented,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pregnant,
- readable,
- referential,
- representative,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- transferred,
- trolatitious,
- tropological,
- typical
- ironic
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- characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely" related words >
- Rabelaisian,
- allusive,
- allusory,
- amalgamated,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- amphibological,
- amphibolous,
- antinomic,
- biting,
- blended,
- caustic,
- combined,
- complex,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- conglomerate,
- cutting,
- cynical,
- dappled,
- dry,
- eclectic,
- enigmatic,
- equivocal,
- equivocatory,
- fifty-fifty,
- half-and-half,
- heterogeneous,
- implicational,
- implicative,
- implicatory,
- incisive,
- indicative,
- indiscriminate,
- inferential,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- insinuatory,
- intricate,
- jumbled,
- many-sided,
- medley,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- mixed,
- mordant,
- motley,
- multifaceted,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- multivocal,
- mysterious,
- obscure,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- patchy,
- pluralistic,
- polysemantic,
- polysemous,
- promiscuous,
- referential,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- satiric,
- scathing,
- scrambled,
- self-contradictory,
- suggestive,
- syncretic,
- thrown together,
- trenchant,
- uncertain,
- varied,
- wry
- flowery
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- marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton
- of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery hat"; "flowery wine" related words >
- Gongoristic,
- adorned,
- affected,
- allusive,
- ambrosial,
- arabesque,
- aromatic,
- artificial,
- aureate,
- balmy,
- baroque,
- befrilled,
- blooming,
- bloomy,
- blossoming,
- bombastic,
- busy,
- chichi,
- colored,
- declamatory,
- decorated,
- diffuse,
- efflorescent,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- essenced,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- festooned,
- figurative,
- figured,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- floral,
- floreate,
- florescent,
- floriate,
- floriated,
- floricultural,
- florid,
- flowered,
- flowering,
- fragrant,
- frilly,
- fruity,
- fussy,
- garden,
- grandiloquent,
- high-flown,
- high-wrought,
- horticultural,
- hortulan,
- in bloom,
- in blossom,
- in flower,
- incense-breathing,
- inflated,
- inflorescent,
- labored,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- mannered,
- metaphorical,
- moresque,
- multiflorous,
- musky,
- odorate,
- odoriferous,
- odorous,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overcharged,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overloaded,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- perfumed,
- perfumy,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretty-pretty,
- prolix,
- purple,
- radiciflorous,
- redolent,
- redundant,
- referential,
- rhizanthous,
- rich,
- rococo,
- savory,
- scented,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- spicy,
- sweet,
- sweet-scented,
- sweet-smelling,
- swollen,
- thuriferous,
- trolatitious,
- tropological,
- uniflorous,
- verbose,
- wordy
- expressive
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- characterized by expression; "a very expressive face" related words >
- Christophanic,
- Satanophanic,
- alive,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- angelophanic,
- appearing,
- associational,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- definable,
- delineative,
- demonstrating,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- designative,
- diagnostic,
- disclosive,
- displaying,
- eloquent,
- emblematic,
- emotional,
- epiphanic,
- evidential,
- evincive,
- exhibitive,
- explicit,
- expositional,
- expositive,
- expository,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- faithful,
- figural,
- figurative,
- forceful,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- graphic,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- imaginative,
- implicative,
- incarnating,
- incarnational,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- lifelike,
- lively,
- loaded,
- manifestative,
- materializing,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- moving,
- naming,
- naturalistic,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- pictorial,
- pithy,
- pneumatophanic,
- poignant,
- pointed,
- pregnant,
- presentational,
- promulgatory,
- provocative,
- readable,
- realistic,
- referential,
- representative,
- responsive,
- revealing,
- revelational,
- revelatory,
- rich,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- showing,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- spirited,
- striking,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- theophanic,
- thought-provoking,
- transferred,
- true to life,
- typical,
- vivid,
- well-drawn
- figurative
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- (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language" related words >
- adorned,
- algorismic,
- algorithmic,
- aliquot,
- allegoric,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- anagogic,
- apish,
- associational,
- befrilled,
- cardinal,
- colored,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- decimal,
- decorated,
- definable,
- delineatory,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- depictive,
- designative,
- diagnostic,
- differential,
- digital,
- echoic,
- embellished,
- emblematic,
- embodying,
- embroidered,
- even,
- evidential,
- exhibitive,
- exponential,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- fancy,
- festooned,
- figural,
- figurate,
- figured,
- finite,
- florid,
- flowery,
- fractional,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- graphic,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- illustrational,
- illustrative,
- imaginary,
- imitative,
- impair,
- implicative,
- impossible,
- incarnating,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- infinite,
- integral,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- irrational,
- limning,
- logarithmic,
- logometric,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- mannered,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- mimetic,
- mimish,
- naming,
- negative,
- numeral,
- numerary,
- numerative,
- numeric,
- odd,
- onomatopoeic,
- ordinal,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- overcharged,
- overloaded,
- pair,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- personifying,
- pictographic,
- pictorial,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- portraying,
- positive,
- possible,
- pregnant,
- prime,
- purple,
- radical,
- rational,
- readable,
- real,
- reciprocal,
- referential,
- representational,
- representative,
- representing,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- simulative,
- submultiple,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- surd,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbolizing,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- transcendental,
- transferred,
- trolatitious,
- tropological,
- typical,
- typifying,
- vivid
- absolute,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- allusory,
- associational,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- authentic,
- based on,
- bawdy,
- blue,
- broad,
- certain,
- circumstantial,
- conclusive,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- convincing,
- cumulative,
- damning,
- decisive,
- definable,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- designative,
- determinative,
- diagnostic,
- dirty,
- documentary,
- documented,
- earthy,
- emblematic,
- erotic,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- evocative,
- ex parte,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- figural,
- figurative,
- final,
- firsthand,
- founded on,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- graphic,
- grounded on,
- hearsay,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- imaginative,
- immodest,
- implicational,
- implicative,
- implicatory,
- implicit,
- improper,
- in retrospect,
- incontrovertible,
- indecent,
- indelicate,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- indisputable,
- individual,
- inferential,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- insinuatory,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- ironic,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- lewd,
- lusty,
- material,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- memoried,
- metaphorical,
- mindful,
- mnemonic,
- naming,
- naughty,
- nuncupative,
- off color,
- off-color,
- offensive,
- overwhelming,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pornographic,
- pregnant,
- presumptive,
- probative,
- provocative,
- prurient,
- purple,
- racy,
- raunchy,
- readable,
- redolent,
- referential,
- reliable,
- remindful,
- reminiscent,
- representative,
- retentive,
- retrospective,
- ribald,
- risky,
- risque,
- rude,
- salacious,
- salty,
- scabrous,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- sexy,
- shady,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- smutty,
- spicy,
- substantial,
- suggestive of,
- sure,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- transferred,
- typical,
- unseemly,
- valid,
- vivid,
- vulgar,
- weighty,
- wicked
- indicative
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- (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly; "actions indicative of fear"
- relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple declarative statements; "indicative mood" related words >
- Christophanic,
- Satanophanic,
- absolute,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- allusory,
- angelophanic,
- appearing,
- associational,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- augural,
- authentic,
- based on,
- certain,
- characteristic,
- circumstantial,
- conclusive,
- conditional,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- convincing,
- cumulative,
- damning,
- decisive,
- definable,
- demonstrating,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- designative,
- determinative,
- diagnostic,
- disclosive,
- displaying,
- documentary,
- documented,
- emblematic,
- epiphanic,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- evincive,
- ex parte,
- exhibitive,
- expositional,
- expository,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- figural,
- figurative,
- final,
- firsthand,
- forerunning,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshowing,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- founded on,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- grounded on,
- hearsay,
- heavy with meaning,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- imperative,
- implicational,
- implicative,
- implicatory,
- implicit,
- incarnating,
- incarnational,
- incontrovertible,
- indicating,
- indicatory,
- indisputable,
- individual,
- inferential,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- insinuatory,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- intuitive,
- ironic,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- jussive,
- manifestative,
- material,
- materializing,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- mode,
- monitory,
- mood,
- naming,
- nuncupative,
- obligative,
- optative,
- overwhelming,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- permissive,
- pithy,
- pneumatophanic,
- pointed,
- potential,
- precursive,
- precursory,
- predictive,
- prefigurative,
- pregnant,
- preindicative,
- premonitory,
- presageful,
- presaging,
- presentational,
- presumptive,
- probative,
- prognostic,
- prognosticative,
- promulgatory,
- readable,
- referential,
- reliable,
- representative,
- revelational,
- revelatory,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- showing,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- subjunctive,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- sure,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- theophanic,
- transferred,
- typical,
- valid,
- warning,
- weighty
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