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Another word for suggestive

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suggestive

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Suggesting thoughts or ideas
carrying a suggestion of, suggestive, evocative, redolent, intriguing, giving an inkling of, symptomatic, indicative; see also symbolic.
Suggesting something indecent or improper
risquÃ©, indecent, obscene, racy, provocative, vulgar, ribald; see also vulgar 1, 2.

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Another word for suggestive

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Tending to bring a memory, mood, or image, for example, subtly or indirectly to mind:
allusive, connotative, evocative, impressionistic, reminiscent. See suggest
Provoking a change of outlook and especially gradual doubt and suspicion:
insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory. See suggest
Conveying hidden or unexpressed meaning:
meaningful, pregnant, significant. See meaning
Bordering on indelicacy or impropriety:
blue, earthy, off-color, provocative, racy, risquÃ©, salty, scabrous, spicy. See decent
Suggesting sexuality:
sensual, sexual, sexy, voluptuous. See sex

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Attractive and suggestive view requires confirmation and independent support.
1 They speak the languages of the localities in which they are settled (Arabic or Persian), but the language of their sacred books is an Aramaic dialect, which has its closest affinities with that of the Babylonian Talmud, written in a peculiar character suggestive of the old Palmyrene.
The Antillean Subregion is in many respects one of the most suggestive and interesting.
The most suggestive study of the pre-monarchical narratives is that of E.
The arches of the Romanesque portal are beautifully ornamented, in a manner suggestive of Arab influence; the bronze doors, executed by Barisanus of Trani in 1175, rank among the best of their period in southern Italy.

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