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suggestive

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of suggestive

1 hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent

  • making unwelcome suggestive remarks to a subordinate will be regarded as sexual harassment
Synonyms of suggestive

bawdy, blue, gamy (or gamey), lewd, off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, ribald, risqué, salty, spicy
Words Related to suggestive

leering

barnyard, coarse, coarse-grained, crude, earthy, foul, gross, vulgar

dirty, filthy, gutter, indecent, lascivious, locker-room, nasty, obscene, pornographic, porny, prurient, raunchy, smutty, stag, unprintable, unpublishable, warm, X-rated

immodest, indecorous, indelicate, naughty
Near Antonyms of suggestive

clean, decent, G-rated, nonobscene

innocuous, inoffensive

priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly

2 provoking a memory or mental association

  • a haunting and suggestive song about a long-lost love
Synonyms of suggestive

evocative, reminiscent
Words Related to suggestive

eloquent, expressive, meaningful, pregnant, revealing, significant

affecting, emotional, impressive, moving, poignant, stirring, touching

exciting, provocative, provoking, rousing, stimulating
Antonyms of suggestive

unreminiscent

3 clearly conveying a special meaning (as oneʼs mood)

  • the dogʼs aggressive behavior is suggestive of some past mistreatment
Synonyms of suggestive

eloquent, expressive, meaning, meaningful, pregnant, revealing, revelatory, significant
Words Related to suggestive

graphic (also graphical), pictorial, vivid

evocative, redolent, reminiscent

sententious, weighty

flavorful, full-bodied, rich
Antonyms of suggestive

unexpressive

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