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suggestive, a.|səˈdʒɛstɪv|
[ad. L. *suggestīvus, f. suggest-: see suggest v. and -ive. Cf. It. soggestivo, Pg. suggestivo; F. suggestif is from Eng.]
†1. Law. Resting upon a ‘suggestion’ or information: see suggestion 4. Obs.
16..in W. Prynne Abridgem. Rec. Tower London (1657) 15 That no pardon be granted to any outlawed by any suggestive means, but only by Parliament. [See Rolls of Parlt. II. 376/1.]
2. a. Calculated or fitted to suggest thoughts, ideas, a course of action, etc.; conveying a suggestion or hint; implying something that is not directly expressed.
1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 501 A Nunne..by sundrie suggestiue reuelations gaue out, that..he should not raigne. 1828Whately Rhetoric in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 284/1 The Suggestive kind of writing we are speaking of. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 208 Some thoughtful and suggestive chapters by M. de Remusat. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 35 It is a living language, pregnant and suggestive. 1884Christ. Commw. 21 Feb. 448/2 It is a suggestive fact that the first thing the Apostle Peter commands us to add to our faith, is courage.
b. Const. of that which is suggested.
1850T. T. Lynch Theoph. Trinal vii. 134 Beautiful things are suggestive of a higher and purer life. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 413 Rough grass, acres of beans and barley, and ploughed fields do not delight the eye, they are not naturally suggestive of anything beyond themselves. 1880Geikie Phys. Geog. iv. 165 An observant eye cannot fail to notice much that is suggestive of inquiry.
c. Of a thinker or writer.
1846Dickens Let. 5 Oct. (1977) IV. 629, I shall have the greatest satisfaction..in putting you in communication with two or three gentlemen who I am sure will be most valuable, willing, and suggestive advisers. 1857Smiles Stephenson (1859) 49 He was a good talker..and a very suggestive thinker. 1875E. White Life in Christ iii. xxii. (1878) 324 The critical basis on which this suggestive author builds his hope of the ‘Destiny of the Race’.
d. euphem. Apt to suggest something indecent.
1888[implied at suggestiveness]. 1889Gunter That Frenchman xi. 128 Her incomparable drolleries and naughtinesses, in some suggestive opera bouffe, some musical debauch. 1895C. D. Warner Golden House iii. 24 Her judges were cosmopolitans who had seen the most suggestive dancing in all parts of the world. 1924R. Macaulay Orphan Island xiv. 182 There were complaints, too, of fashions in dress, which, on the part of the younger females, were becoming immodest and suggestive. 1926T. Dreiser Amer. Tragedy I. xviii. 132 They..lay there laughing and yet in a most suggestive position. 1978L. Meynell Papersnake iii. 51 Mabel, archpriestess of the art of suggestive repartee.
3. Of a method, plan, etc.: That suggests itself.
1806P. Colquhoun (title) Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, containing a Detail of the various Crimes and Misdemeanours, and Suggestive Remedies. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. vii. 190 No plan was so suggestive as that of quenching his sight.
4. Pertaining to hypnotic suggestion.
1903F. W. H. Myers Human Pers. I. 154 The suggestive or hypnotic induction of supernormal powers.
Hence suˈggestively adv., in a suggestive manner; in the way of suggestion; so as to suggest something.
1859Ruskin Two Paths v. §141 The subject is..too wide to be more than suggestively treated. 1884Harper's Mag. Oct. 744/2 ‘If there was any one that hed money to spare,’ one added, suggestively. 1891W. C. Russell Curatica 20 My old schoolmaster..with his right arm suggestively withdrawn behind his back, as though he were hiding some deadly weapon of offence. |