资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Indicative \In*dic"a*tive\, a. [L. indicativus: cf. F.
   indicatif.]
   1. Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or
      knowledge of something not visible or obvious.

            That truth is productive of utility, and utility
            indicative of truth, may be thus proved. --Bp.
                                                  Warburton.

   2. (Fine Arts) Suggestive; representing the whole by a part,
      as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc.

   {Indicative mood} (Gram.), that mood or form of the verb
      which indicates, that is, which simply affirms or denies
      or inquires; as, he writes; he is not writing; has the
      mail arrived?

资料来源 : WordNet®

indicative mood
     n : a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or
         state as an objective fact [syn: {indicative}, {declarative
         mood}, {declarative}, {common mood}, {fact mood}]