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单词 indicative
释义

indicative

/ɪnˈdɪkətɪv /
adjective
1Serving as a sign or indication of something: having recurrent dreams is not necessarily indicative of any psychological problem...
  • Thinking about it, it is perhaps time for a general shake-up of road names and signs in this area to make them more indicative of their use.
  • The fact that we have kept so many clients for so many years is more indicative of the service we have provided.
  • Watching Paul glance over several times at Dan's guitar with a half smile was very indicative of how much Dan can blow everyone away while performing.

Synonyms

symptomatic, expressive, suggestive, evocative, typical, characteristic, representative, symbolic, emblematic
archaic indicatory
2 Grammar Denoting a mood of verbs expressing simple statement of a fact. Compare with subjunctive.If a regular pronoun and indicative mood are used, it shows that the speaker asserts that the report is true....
  • He wants to move the claim from the conditional to the indicative mood, as the grammarians would say.
  • The third-person singular indicative ending in Shakespeare's verbs could be either s, as now, or the older th.
noun Grammar
1A verb in the indicative mood.Thus, if a language has long-distance reflexivization with indicatives, then it will necessarily have it with (if relevant) subjunctives, infinitives, small clauses, and NPs....
  • And the form is, of course, the first-person singular present active indicative.
  • Is ‘preserve’ in a poem being discussed an indicative or subjunctive?
1.1 (the indicative) The indicative mood.This is not simply to avoid criticisms of judgment speech by translating it from the indicative to the optative....
  • Moreover, the shift in grammatical mood from subjunctive to indicative underscores how plausible this vision is.
  • Success is articulated not in the indicative but in the subjunctive: potential threats removed; future wars that don't have to be fought.

Derivatives

indicatively

adverb ...
  • ‘Let me,’ he said indicatively, dipping the strawberry into the fall of chocolate.
  • The abstract was better, written indicatively and discipline-oriented.
  • The following diagram indicatively illustrates the consensus view reflected in the ten workshop plans.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French indicatif, -ive, from late Latin indicativus, from the verb indicare (see indicate).

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