suggestive of

suggestive of (something)

1. Evocative or reminiscent of something. The artist's songs are suggestive of European folk music. These ruins are suggestive of a highly organized society living within the cliffsides themselves.
2. Implying, expressing, or making evident something in an indirect or unclear manner. The figures are suggestive of an economy that has not yet become totally stable. The protests and demonstrations are suggestive of a nascent but strong-willed rebellion.
See also: of, suggestive
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*suggestive of something

reminiscent of something; suggesting something. (*Typically: be ~; become ~.) Bill's homemade soup is suggestive of his mother's. The new movie was suggestive of an old one I had seen on TV.
See also: of, suggestive
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • suggestive
  • suggestive of (something)
  • smack of
  • smack of (something)
  • show signs of
  • show signs of (something)
  • be near the knuckle
  • anyone I know?
  • near the knuckle
  • talk dirty
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"In general, insects have a taste somewhat suggestive of nuts, such as almonds."
Pass the bugs, please!
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Just under 3 per cent of Canadians aged 25 to 46 years have experienced at least one manic episode suggestive of Bipolar I Disorder according to the data from the 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey: Mental Health and Well-being.
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The setting lends the school in the video a suburban air eerily suggestive of a place like Columb ine.
Jennifer Reeder: Julia Friedman Gallery. (Chicago)
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"The biochemical markers in blood that are suggestive of poor eating alcohol and exercise habits may not manifest themselves until later in life.
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The wildly different dynamics--the ultra-fast huddled spin juxtaposed with the dancers suspending in splayed positions, the quick, flat-footed steps alternating with serene, refined waltzing--were suggestive of a world out of kilter, perhaps a statement on the right-wing condition in Vienna today.
RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE COMPANY
Contrasting with traditional narratives of the search for origins in some utopian or prelapsarian past, these figurative returns to the troubled history of the Middle Passage are suggestive of black writers' continuing struggle with issues of identity and representation in their art.
Reading the painterly text: Clarence Major's "The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage."
It is curious that Haskin chooses this "place" where Milton is expanding the authority of restrictions rather than a moment more suggestive of Milton seeking a liberating fluidity.
Milton's Burden of Interpretation
Despite being made of wrought iron (the gates were hand-beaten and wrought locally by Architectural Ironworks), their tacky appearance is more suggestive of glass fibre or even papier mache.
Outrage