suggestive

suggestive
sug·ges·tive adj: giving a suggestion or making a hint: as
a: being a trademark, trade dress, trade name, or service mark that requires the consumer to use thought and imagination to perceive the nature of the product or service
◇ Suggestive marks are entitled to trademark protection without proof of secondary meaning.
b: relating to or being a lineup that in some way suggests to the witness which member of the lineup is in fact the defendant

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

suggestive
I (evocative) adjective allusive, commemorative, commemoratory, connotative. demonstrative, expressive, graphic, graphical, implicative, indicant, indicative, indicatory, inferential, insinuative, insinuatory, intriguing, lifelike, meaningful, ominous, pictorial, provocative, recollective, redolent, referential, remindful, reminiscent, reminiscential, symbolic, thought-provoking, vivid associated concepts: suggestive lineup II (risque) adjective bawdy, carnal, coarse, erotic, improper, indecent, indelicate, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, loose, lurid, lustful, obscene, off-color, pornographic, provocative, racy, ribald, salacious, seductive, sexy, shameless, smutty, spicy, titillating, wanton III index allusive, apparent (presumptive), circumstantial, demonstrative (illustrative), implicit, leading (guiding), lewd, portentous (ominous), precatory, provocative, prurient, salacious

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006

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