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indicant

indicant adjective: indicative; that points out.

Adjective

indicant (not comparable)

  1. indicative; that points out.
    • The ability to suffer patiently, then, is indicant of spiritual maturity2009, Paul L. Heck, Common Ground: Islam, Christianity, and Religious Pluralism

Noun

indicant (plural indicants)

  1. Something which indicates or points out; an indicator
    • 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.1910, Edwin Balmer, The Science of Advertising
    • "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...1927, Willard Huntington Wright, The "Canary" Murder Case/Chapter 11, Chapter 11

indicant meaning in Tamil and Urdu

indicant in Tamil

உண்மை நோய்நாடல் காட்டி, உண்மை மருத்துவம் காட்டல்

indicant in Urdu

بتانے والا, نشان دہندہ, نمائندہ

Forms of indicant

pluralindicants

Origin of indicant

From Latin indicans.

Words formed from indicant

Questions about indicant

What does indicant mean?
Indicant means indicative; that points out.
What is indicant in Tamil?
Indicant in Tamil is உண்மை நோய்நாடல் காட்டி, உண்மை மருத்துவம் காட்டல். See Indicant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is indicant?
Indicant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near indicant in the dictionary

  1. indicable
  2. indicaine
  3. indicamine
  4. indican
  5. indicans
  6. indicant
  7. indicants
  8. indicanuria
  9. indicanurias
  10. indicas
  11. indicatable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indicant (page history and authors); indicant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indicant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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