to imply
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3.5
- verb
- /ɪmˈplaɪ/
:
sugerir
- The way she looked at him seemed to imply that she knew his secret.
- seem to imply
- often implies
- mean to imply
Is that what you're implying to a degree?
- Is that what you're implying to a degree?
- We like that word because it implies that we're solving something.
- They're just trying to imply that the price cuts are over.
- I don't like what your report implied about my answer.
- So you're kind of implying that it's a useful hack.
- If it is honestly, carry on implies a lot of sacrifice.
- Well, prominent implies that there's a bunch of others, right?
- So by calling someone violent, you imply that they don't have the right to resist.
- Because by gaslighting them you implied that they were wrong.
- This one also, as the name implies, is not.
- And the other is kind of implying that it's kind of hard to do.
Examples
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Such a relationship might be taken to imply a set of more or less universal principles.
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The different levels of strictness imply different amounts of investment, both of time and of money.
Academic text (1999) -
A further point is to recognize that all of these terms imply assumptions about the nature of learning.
Academic text (2011) -
The process of development involves change, which, in itself, implies some degree of conflict.
Academic text (1990) -
I thought she was implying something really mean.
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In the case of taking a screening sample, consent is implied rather than expressed.
Academic text (2011) -
But this does not necessarily imply that miraculous revolutions in technology are the only solution.
Academic text (2011) -
The children's costumes imply that they could be circus workers, but theirs is a look of wealth.
Academic text (2011) -
Are you implying that the Examiner would aid and abet a criminal?
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Finally, no significant political upheavals are forecast, implying an uninterrupted flow of investment and production.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
∞
2.1
To show that something may be true without saying it directly
834
2.7
Show or suggest that something is likely true
136
2.0
To suggest something in a quiet way without saying it directly
88
6.5
To mention something without saying it directly
42
7.8
To suggest something bad about someone without saying it directly
14
7.2
To suggest something indirectly without saying it
4
3.4
To suggest something in a quiet, indirect way
Antonyms
How Suggestive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Imply comes from Latin in- ('in') plus plicare ('to fold'), so it originally meant to 'fold in' an idea. You can see the same root in familiar words like apply and reply. That's why to imply is to put an idea 'inside' your words and suggest it without saying it directly.