The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indicative \In*dic"a*tive\, a. [L. indicativus: cf. F. indicatif.]
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Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious.
That truth is productive of utility, and utility indicative of truth, may be thus proved.
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(Fine Arts) Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc.
Indicative mood (Gram.), that mood or form of the verb which indicates, that is, which simply affirms or denies or inquires; as, he writes; he is not writing; has the mail arrived?
Wiktionary
n. (context grammar English) The mood of a verb used in ordinary factual or objective statements.
WordNet
n. a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact [syn: indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood]
Usage examples of "indicative mood".
The stubbornness of our language has sometimes forced me to deviate from the conditional into the indicative mood.
Verbs can be in the Indicative mood, or Interrogative, Subjunctive, Optative, Conjunctive, Infinitive.