Indicate and Respond

Indicate

Indicate verb - To serve as a sign or symptom of.

Show all Definitions

Respond and indicate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Respond" instead a verb "Indicate".

Respond verb - To act or behave in response (as to a stimulus or influence).

Show all Definitions

Indicate and respond are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Indicate" instead a verb "Respond".

desire	indicate desire	respond desire
power	indicate power	respond power
people	indicate people	respond people
someone	indicate someone	respond someone
Other words: presence, time, way.

In the first, Rin asks Riki who he likes, and approves of all of the other girls, while he is too flustered to respond, which all seems to indicate that at least he and Rin aren't going out.

Source: Visual Novel / Little Busters!
Some of her conversations with her mother indicate that she can't even predict how someone with empathy would respond to murder.

Source: Obliviously Evil
We Can Rule Together: Giegue gives Ninten alone a chance to board his mothership, although the game never gives you any choice as to how to respond, and Giegue's next lines indicate that Ninten refused.

Source: Video Game / EarthBound Beginnings

Cite this Source

Respond and Indicate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/indicate/respond

Indicate & Respond. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/indicate/respond>.

Respond or Indicate. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/indicate/respond.

Google Ngram Viewer shows how "indicate" and "respond" have occurred on timeline