Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
referring or pointing to something;
- Example: "symbols are inherently referential"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Referential \Ref`er*en"tial\ (-shal), a.
Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself;
as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
referential
adj 1: referring or pointing to something; "symbols are
inherently referential"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "referential":
allegorical, allusive, allusory, associational, connotational,
connotative, definable, denotational, denotative, expressive,
extended, extensional, figurative, figured, flowery,
full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, implicational,
implicative, implicatory, indicative, inferential, insinuating,
insinuative, insinuatory, intelligible, intensional, interpretable,
ironic, mannered, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical,
ornamented, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable, sententious,
significant, significative, substantial, suggestive, symbolic,
transferred, trolatitious, tropological