| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Provoking a change of outlook and especially gradual doubt and suspicion: insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory. See SUGGEST. 2. Conveying hidden or unexpressed meaning: meaningful, pregnant, significant. See MEANING. 3. Bordering on indelicacy or impropriety: blue, earthy, off-color, provocative, racy, risqué, salty, scabrous, spicy. See DECENT. 4. Suggesting sexuality: sensual, sexual, sexy, voluptuous. See SEX. 5. Tending to bring a memory, mood, or image, for example, subtly or indirectly to mind: allusive, connotative, evocative, impressionistic, reminiscent. See SUGGEST.
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