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- allusive
collapse - characterized by indirect references; "allusive speech is characterized by allusions" related words >
- inferential
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- 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
- buffed,
- burnished,
- cottony,
- deferential,
- disarming,
- finished,
- furbished,
- glace,
- glassy,
- glazed,
- gleaming,
- glossy,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- lacquered,
- plush,
- plushy,
- polished,
- rubbed,
- saccharine,
- satinlike,
- satiny,
- sericeous,
- shellacked,
- shiny,
- silklike,
- silky,
- sleek,
- slick,
- soft as silk,
- varnished,
- velutinous,
- velvetlike,
- velvety
- accommodating,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- attentive,
- cap in hand,
- ceremonious,
- civil,
- complaisant,
- conscientious,
- considerate,
- courteous,
- crouching,
- disarming,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- ethical,
- fair,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- honorific,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- moral,
- obedient,
- obeisant,
- obliging,
- obsequious,
- observant,
- on bended knee,
- polite,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- saccharine,
- scrupulous,
- servile,
- silken,
- silky,
- solicitous,
- subservient,
- tactful,
- thoughtful,
- urbane
- 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
- disarming
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- act of reducing or depriving of arms; "the disarmament of the aggressor nations must be complete"
- capable of allaying suspicion or hostility and inspiring confidence; "a disarming smile"
- capable of allaying hostility related words >
- 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
- 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
- ingratiating
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- calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner"
- capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile" related words >
- abject,
- adulatory,
- apple-polishing,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- deferential,
- disarming,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- glib,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- mealymouthed,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- prostrate,
- saccharine,
- servile,
- silken,
- silky,
- slimy,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- smug,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-spoken,
- sponging,
- suave,
- suave-spoken,
- sugary,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- wheedling
- 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
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- buffed,
- burnished,
- capillary,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- cottony,
- dainty,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- disarming,
- downy,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- finished,
- flagelliform,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- funicular,
- furbished,
- fuzzy,
- gauzy,
- glace,
- glassy,
- glazed,
- gleaming,
- glossy,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- lacquered,
- ligamental,
- lustrous,
- plush,
- plushy,
- polished,
- pubescent,
- refined,
- ropy,
- rubbed,
- saccharine,
- satin,
- satinlike,
- satiny,
- sericeous,
- shellacked,
- shiny,
- silken,
- silklike,
- sleek,
- slick,
- smooth,
- soft,
- soft as silk,
- stringy,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- thin-spun,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- varnished,
- velutinous,
- velvetlike,
- velvety,
- wiredrawn,
- wiry
- 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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