indicative

comparative more indicative · superlative most indicative · alternative abbreviation ind.

1. Serving as a sign, indication or suggestion of something.

   He had pains indicative of a heart attack.

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   Although it may be convenient within the case study publication format to cover the topic of pseudopathology in the discussion of differential diagnosis, this is not indicative of how this stage of work slots into the diagnostic process in the laboratory.

   2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 29

2. grammarOf, or relating to the indicative mood.

plural indicatives · alternative abbreviation ind.

1. uncountablegrammarThe indicative mood.
2. countablegrammarA term in the indicative mood.

   The fact that imperative forms were taken into English as indicatives suggests that the English speakers using the Hindustani verbs were most familiar (in some cases perhaps only familiar) with the imperative form.

   2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 253