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Indictive vs Suggestive - What's the difference?

indictive | suggestive |

As adjectives the difference between indictive and suggestive

is that indictive is proclaimed; declared; public while suggestive is tending to suggest or imply.

indictive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • proclaimed; declared; public
    • (Kennet)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    suggestive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to suggest or imply.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • Suggesting romance, sex, etc.