1 (improper) [+remark, look, clothing] provocativo; insinuante another former employee claims he also made suggestive [remarks] to her The girls stood around, exchanging gossip and calling out suggestive [remarks] If she said something that I considered suggestive, I would make a sharp retort \COB1 ... a suggestive leer ... women in suggestive, available [poses] She spent the evening talking about sex and doing a lot of suggestive dancing with people she had never met before The suggestive lift of an eyebrow, eye contact, breathless yearning, that's what sexy in films today ...a school rule that bans [clothing] considered suggestive, vulgar or provocative Her black trousers were too tight, too suggestive
sexually suggestive provocativo
...advertisements containing words or pictures of a sexually suggestive nature ...videos that are sexually suggestive
2 (indicative) to be suggestive of sth: symptoms which were suggestive of heart failure síntomas que sugerían que pod(r)ía tratarse de un fallo cardíaco; síntomas que parecían indicar que se trataba de un fallo cardíaco; his behaviour was suggestive of a cultured man su comportamiento parecía indicar que era un hombre culto; the atmosphere was suggestive of a jazz session (evocative of) el ambiente evocaba el de una sesión de jazz
the long, curving nails were suggestive of animal claws The Indo-European root of "experience" is related to a large family of words suggestive of journeys and passages, efforts and risk
3 (thought-provoking) sugerente the book is full of original and suggestive thought the book is strewn with suggestive generalisations such a procedure, while suggestive, has its limitations
