indicative

CEFRB2

/ɪnˈdɪk.ə.tɪv/

adjective · noun

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A high forehead is indicative of great mental power.
In the second-person singular, the perfect active indicative of "laudare" is "laudavisti".

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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He had pains indicative of a heart attack.
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.

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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
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

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From Middle French indicatif, from Late Latin indicātīvus. By surface analysis, indicate + -ive.