Word Meanings - HINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike. Pope. Syn. -- To suggest; intimate; insinuate; imply. (more info) seize; or Icel. ymta to

Additional info about word: HINT

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike. Pope. Syn. -- To suggest; intimate; insinuate; imply. (more info) seize; or Icel. ymta to mutter, ymtr a muttering, Dan. ymte to

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HINT)

• Adumbration
• Shadow
• foreshadowing
• presage
• prognostic
• delineation
• premonition
• hint
• sketch
• prototype
• suggestion
• Allude
• Point
• indicate
• suggest
• signify
• insinuate
• refer
• imply
• intimate
• Imply
• Involve
• mean
• import
• denote
• include
• Insinuate
• Introduce
• insert
• worm
• ingratiate
• infuse
• Intimate
• Impart
• communicate
• announce
• declare
• tell
• mention briefly

Related words: (words related to HINT)

• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• PROGNOSTICATOR
  One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• INTIMATE
  corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• REFER
  1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
• DELINEATION
  1. The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from
• REFERENTIAL
  Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• IMPORTUNATOR
  One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• UNMENTIONABLES
  The breeches; trousers.
• REINSERT
  To insert again.
• SELF-IMPARTING
  Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.