suggestive

adj.

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

suggestively sug·ges'tive·ly adv.
suggestiveness sug·ges'tive·ness n.

adjective

1. Tending to bring a memory, mood, or image, for example, subtly or indirectly to mind: allusive, connotative, evocative, impressionistic, reminiscent. See suggest.
2. Provoking a change of outlook and especially gradual doubt and suspicion: insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory. See suggest.
3. Conveying hidden or unexpressed meaning: meaningful, pregnant, significant. See meaning.
4. Bordering on indelicacy or impropriety: blue, earthy, off-color, provocative, racy, risqué, salty, scabrous, spicy. See decent/indecent.
5. Suggesting sexuality: sensual, sexual, sexy, voluptuous. See sex/asexual.

adj

Definition: dirty, vulgar
Antonyms: clean, moral, unprovocative

adj

Definition: signifying
Antonyms: meaningless, simple

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: having a covert or special meaning
  Synonyms: indicative, significative

Meaning #2: tending to suggest or imply
  Synonyms: implicational, implicative, suggestive of

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - suggestiv, tankevækkende, betegnende, komme med uanstændige antydninger, lummer

Nederlands (Dutch)
suggestief, pikant

Français (French)
adj. - suggestif

Deutsch (German)
adj. - anzüglich, zweideutig, andeutend, suggestiv

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - υποδηλωτικός, υπαινικτικός, άσεμνος

Italiano (Italian)
suggestivo, spinto, allusivo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - sugestivo

Русский (Russian)
наводящий на размышления, напоминающий, намекающий на что-л. непристойное, относящийся к внушению

Español (Spanish)
adj. - verde, sugestivo, evocador

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - tankeväckande, stimulerande, suggestiv, uppslagsrik, tvetydig, ekivok

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
提示性的, 暗示的, 影射的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 提示性的, 暗示的, 影射的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 암시적인, 시사적인, 떠오르게 하는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 暗示に富む, 思わせる, いかがわしい, 際どい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) موح , مكشوف‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מרמז, מעורר מחשבות, מגונה, גס, לא-צנוע‬

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