Difference between Argue and Indicate

What is the difference between Argue and Indicate?

Argue as a verb is to debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. while Indicate as a verb is to point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

Argue

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. To have an argument, a quarrel. To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).

Example sentence: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

Indicate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remediesTo signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or leftTo investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

Example sentence: It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

We hope you now know whether to use Argue or Indicate in your sentence.

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