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Definition of Indicative

Indicative
Indicative In*dic"a*tive, n. (Gram.) The indicative mood.
Indicative
Indicative In*dic"a*tive, a. [L. indicativus: cf. F. indicatif.] 1. Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious. That truth is productive of utility, and utility indicative of truth, may be thus proved. --Bp. Warburton. 2. (Fine Arts) Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc. Indicative mood (Gram.), that mood or form of the verb which indicates, that is, which simply affirms or denies or inquires; as, he writes; he is not writing; has the mail arrived?

Meaning of Indicative from wikipedia

- declarative sentences. Most languages have a single realis mood called the indicative mood, although some languages have additional realis moods, for example...
- In natural languages, an indicative conditional is a conditional sentence such as "If Leona is at home, she isn't in Paris", whose grammatical form restricts...
- A misnomer is a name that is incorrectly or unsuitably applied. Misnomers often arise because something was named long before its correct nature was known...
- Indicative planning is a form of economic planning implemented by a state in an effort to solve the problem of imperfect information in market economies...
- now seen as a process, more than an event: conditions once considered indicative of death are now reversible. Where in the process, a dividing line is...
- " A simple conditional may use any tense of the indicative. The following has the perfect indicative: εἰ μέν τι ἠσέβηκα ... ἀποκτείνατέ με. (Andocides)...
- in most Indo-European languages: the present indicative (the combination of present tense and indicative mood) and the present subjunctive (the combination...
- refer to what is not necessarily real. It is often contrasted with the indicative, a realis mood which prin****lly indicates that something is a statement...
- Union, scheduled to be established by 2010 according to SADC's Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP), is unlikely to become reality in the...
- In the law of the European Union, indicative limit values, more exactly indicative occupational exposure limit values (IOELVs), are human exposure limits...