indicative

1. 1.

   a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

   Synonymsindicative mooddeclarative mooddeclarativecommon moodfact mood

   Broadermood

Other forms of indicative

plural

indicatives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about indicative

What does indicative mean?

indicative means "relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indicative?

indicative has 4 syllables: in-dic-a-tive. The stress falls on "dic". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdɪkətɪv/.

What is another word for indicative?

Close synonyms include declarative, indicatory, revelatory, significative, 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 indicative a common word?

indicative is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.