Indicant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Indicant is an adjective meaning indicative; that points out.
Meaning
indicative; that points out.
More Meanings
- Something which indicates or points out; an indicator
Example Sentences
The ability to suffer patiently, then, is indicant of spiritual maturity
Yet in spite of the essential crudity of this advertising, it had very early developed the value of the trademark as an indicant of quality in the product to which it was attached.
"A number of things—his gratuitous and obviously mendacious statement that he had just read of the murder; his wholly insincere homily on the sacredness of professional confidences; the cautious and Pecksniffian confession of his fatherly regard for the girl; his elaborate struggle to remember when he had last seen her—this particularly, I think, made me suspicious; and then, the psychopathic indicants of his physiognomy."
Word Forms
- indicants
Synonyms for indicant
Depending on context, synonyms include index, indicator.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include indicator, index, denotatory, recommendary, demonstratory, elicitory.
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