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English
Etymology
From implicate + -ive.
Adjective
implicative (comparative more implicative, superlative most implicative)
- Tending to implicate or to imply; pertaining to implication.
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Further reading
- “implicative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “implicative”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.