Word Meanings - INDICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants. (more info) pref. in- in + dicare to proclaim; akin to dicere to say. See 1. To point out; to discover;

Additional info about word: INDICATE

To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants. (more info) pref. in- in + dicare to proclaim; akin to dicere to say. See 1. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known. That turns and turns to indicate From what point blows the weather. Cowper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDICATE)

• Allude
• Point
• indicate
• suggest
• hint
• signify
• insinuate
• refer
• imply
• intimate
• Bespeak
• Betoken
• foreorder
• forestall
• provide
• prearrange
• evidence
• Teach
• proclaim
• presage
• augur
• portend
• foreshow
• forebode
• declare
• manifest
• involve
• Betray
• Deceive
• delude
• dupe
• circumvent
• ensnare
• dishonor
• reveal
• Discover
• Find
• invent
• descry
• disclose
• unearth
• ferret out
• ascertain
• discern
• make known
• detect
• betray

Related words: (words related to INDICATE)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• INTIMATE
  corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• REFER
  1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
• REFERENTIAL
  Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither