Definition of "suggestive" []

• Tending to suggest; evocative: artifacts suggestive of an ancient society. (adjective)
• Stimulating further thought: "Suggestive here is the Southern, often Western and rural locus of these tales” ( Mark Muro). (adjective)
• Conveying a hint or suggestion: conveyed the message with a few suggestive words. (adjective)
• Tending to suggest something improper or indecent: a controversial song with highly suggestive lyrics. (adjective)

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• "Is it a term suggestive of the wisdom or the ignorance of those to whom it is applied?"
• "Possibly, if the thing became too pensive and soulful altogether, he might give it some title suggestive of the absent lover at the bull-fight -- "The Toreador's Bride" -- or something of that sort."
• "Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" had a religious moral, as well as a title suggestive of religious ideas."