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INDICATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does indicative mean?
• INDICATIVE (noun)
The noun INDICATIVE has 1 sense:
1. a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
Familiarity information: INDICATIVE used as a noun is very rare.
• INDICATIVE (adjective)
The adjective INDICATIVE has 2 senses:
1. relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements
2. (usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly
Familiarity information: INDICATIVE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
common mood; declarative; declarative mood; fact mood; indicative; indicative mood
Hypernyms ("indicative" is a kind of...):
modality; mode; mood (verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
declarative; indicative
Context example:
indicative mood
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
Pertainym:
indicative mood (a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly
Synonyms:
indicative; indicatory; revelatory; significative; suggestive
Context example:
actions indicative of fear
Similar:
revealing (showing or making known)
Derivation:
indicate (give evidence of)
indicate (be a signal for or a symptom of)
indicate (suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine)
Context examples
In transgenic mouse, creation of apparently increased glandular spaces compared to wild type mice is not necessarily indicative of invasive carcinoma.
(High Grade Mouse Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
A form of gene expression profiling that is indicative of the biological behavior of a tumor or cancer.
(Gene Signature, NCI Thesaurus)
Characteristic or indicative of a condition.
(Diagnostic, NCI Thesaurus)
A low BLAST E-value is indicative of high statistical significance.
(BLAST E-Value, NCI Thesaurus)
Invasive malignant epithelial neoplasms that show light microscopic, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features indicative of NE differentiation, corresponding primarily to the presence of neurosecretory granules.
(Invasive Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
The elevation of body temperature in a pregnant mother above 38 degrees C or more than 101 degrees F, and may be indicative of an infection.
(Maternal Fever, NCI Thesaurus)
The resultant progeny inherits physical distinctive traits indicative of the specific parent gene.
(Phenocopy Alteration, NCI Thesaurus)
An answer indicative of no worries.
(No Concerns, NCI Thesaurus)
A form of gene and protein expression profiling that is indicative of the biological behavior of a tumor or cancer.
(Molecular Signature, NCI Thesaurus)
Variations of menstruation which may be indicative of disease.
(Menstrual Disorder, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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