suggestive
About 4.93 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Tending to suggest or imply.
The painting is abstract, but the colors are suggestive of fruit or the Mediterranean.
- adjective Suggesting romance, sex, etc.; risqué.
She crossed her legs and shot him a suggestive smile.
- adjective Relating to hypnotic suggestion.
Similar words
implicative implicational meaningful significative indicative connotative suggestive of suggest allusive consistent
Often followed by
of and evidence in that to rather as for
Word family
suggestively suggestiveness suggestivenesses
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