indicative mood

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsindicativedeclarative mooddeclarativecommon moodfact mood

   Broadermood

Questions about indicative mood

What does indicative mood mean?

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

What is another word for indicative mood?

Close synonyms include indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood. 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 mood a common word?

indicative mood 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.