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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggestive of something in the past |
| Synonyms: | bringing to mind, evocative, implicative, mnemonic, nostalgic, recollective, redolent, remindful, similar |
| Antonyms: | forgetful, oblivious |
| Main Entry: | redolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aromatic; suggestive |
| Synonyms: | ambrosial, balmy, evocative, fragrant, odoriferous, perfumed, pungent, remindful, reminiscent, scented, sweet-smelling |
| Notes: | redolent (an adjective) is customarily used of pleasant odors while reek (a verb) is used of odors that are sensorily unpleasing; redolent, 'emitting a strong odor or smell,' comes from Latin olere 'emit a smell' |
| Main Entry: | suggestive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | signifying |
| Synonyms: | evocative, evocatory, expressive, giving an inkling, indicative, intriguing, pregnant, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, significative, symbolic, symptomatic |
| Antonyms: | meaningless, simple |
| Main Entry: | remembering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | remembered |
| Synonyms: | anamnestic, evocative, memoried, memorized, redolent, reminiscent |
| Antonyms: | forgetting, overlooking |
| Main Entry: | impressionistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggestive |
| Synonyms: | allusive, connotative, evocative, evocatory, expressive, giving an inkling, indicative, intriguing, pregnant, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, significative, symbolic, symptomatic |
| Main Entry: | insinuating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | provoking doubt |
| Synonyms: | evocative, evocatory, expressive, giving an inkling, indicative, insinuative, insinuatory, intriguing, pregnant, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, significative, suggestive, symbolic, symptomatic |
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