implicative

1. 1.

   tending to suggest or imply

   “artifacts suggestive of an ancient society”

   “an implicative statement”

   Synonymssuggestive

   Similarconnotative

Questions about implicative

What does implicative mean?

implicative means "tending to suggest or imply".

How many syllables are in implicative?

implicative has 4 syllables: im-pli-ca-tive. The stress falls on "pli".

What is another word for implicative?

Close synonyms include suggestive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is implicative a common word?

implicative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.