[ US /səˈdʒɛstɪv/ ]
[ UK /səd‍ʒˈɛstɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. tending to suggest something improper or indecent
    a suggestive nod
    suggestive poses
  2. (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly
    actions indicative of fear
  3. tending to suggest or imply
    an implicative statement
    artifacts suggestive of an ancient society
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How To Use suggestive In A Sentence

  • The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
  • Modestly clad women appear as newsreaders on TV, while sexually suggestive Hindi film posters adorn shopfronts about town.
  • There is also the highly suggestive definitation of cartomancy - literally from the French carte card + mancie -mancy: fortune-telling by the use of playing cards. Archive 2008-02-01
  • The mind instantly converts an innocent remark into a cacophony of suggestive possibilities.
  • Both caseation and calcification are highly suggestive of a tubercular etiology, neither being common in malignancy related lymphadenopathy.
  • Some parts of Australia have traditions of huge reptiles suggestive of long-necked sauropods, the dinosaur group which includes Diplodocus and Apatosaurus.
  • The basal ganglia of the brain are peculiarly rich in acetylcholine, the presence of which must presumably have some significance; and suggestive effects of eserine and of acetylcholine, injected into the ventricles of the brain, have been described. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
  • Very light straw color, green-apple nose, with a citrusy vibrancy on the palate leading to a slatey, minerally note suggestive of a great Mosel. Biodynamics: Natural Wonder or Just a Horn of Manure?
  • A balance of storming multilinear playing suggestive of Keith Jarrett, romantic ballads and fluent improvisation, it's another acceleration in a fast-lane career that shifted from gifted student status to rising star almost overnight. This week's new live music
  • Your symptoms are more suggestive of an air pressure issue inside your middle ear cavity. The Sun
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