| 单词 | suggestive |
| 释义 | suggestive (once / 769 pages) adj The adjective suggestive is useful when one thing indicates or hints at something else. Your constant yawning, for example, is suggestive of how tired you are. Scientists and researchers often use the word suggestive to describe results that indicate a strong possibility of something without decisively proving it: "This is suggestive evidence of life on other planets." Sometimes, suggestive is used to describe something inappropriate or obscene: "Parents always think popular music's lyrics are too suggestive." This meaning came about in the late 1800's, more than two hundred years after suggestive first appeared in the language from the verb suggest. WORD FAMILYsuggestive: suggestively+/suggest: suggested, suggester, suggestible, suggesting, suggestion, suggestive, suggests/suggester: suggesters/suggestible: suggestibility/suggestion: self-suggestion, suggestions USAGE EXAMPLESSome scenes in the trailer are a little more suggestive, though there might be a public indecency law broken in one of them. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) “Fences,” a Paramount Pictures release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “thematic elements, language and some suggestive references.” Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) In this patient, they were borderline — not clearly low in the legs, but suggestive of PAD. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) 1adj tending to suggest or imply artifacts suggestive of an ancient society Syn implicative connotative having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit 2adj (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly Syn indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative revealing showing or making known 3adj tending to suggest something improper or indecent a suggestive nod suggestive poses Syn indecent offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters |
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