Word Meanings - IMPLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: 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 proved, a mulicious intention is implied. Bp. Sherlock. When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . . the act of hiring implies an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Blackstone. 3. To refer, ascribe, or attribute. Whence might this distaste arise If neither your perverse and peevish will. To which I most imply it. J. Webster. Syn. -- To involve; include; comprise; import; mean; denote; signify; betoken. See Involve.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPLY)
- Allude
- Point
- indicate
- suggest
- hint
- signify
- insinuate
- refer
- imply
- intimate
- Argue
- Discuss
- debate
- prove
- question
- evidence
- establish
- sift
- dispute
- persuade
- controvert
- contend
- demonstrate
- reason
- Attend
- Listen
- heed
- notice
- observe
- wait on
- serve
- mind
- watch
- accompany
- consort
- follow
- involve
- Attest
- Vouch
- aver
- assert
- certify
- witness
- vouch for
- affirm
- testify
- support
- confirm
- bespeak
- Betoken
- Teach
- proclaim
- presage
- augur
- portend
- foreshow
- forebode
- declare
- manifest
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPLY)
- Avoid
- abandon
- excommunicate
- blackball
- banish
- exclude
- Dictate
- state
- assert
- pronounce
- enunciate
- concede
- endorse
- affirm
- grant
- allow
- Drop
- betray
- surrender
- discontinue
- oppose
- discourage
- weaken
- exhaust
- thwart
- discountenance
- disfavor
- subvert
- suppress
Related words: (words related to IMPLY)
- PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - PROVERBIAL
1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - TEACHER
1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. - 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 - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - TEACHABLENESS
Willingness to be taught. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - SUGGESTER
One who suggests. Beau. & Fl. - CONSORTSHIP
The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond. - 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; - WATCHET
Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden. - PERSUADER
One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton. - AFFIRMATIVELY
In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively. - 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 - CONSORT
A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, - ASSERT
self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to - DISSERVE
To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym: - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - DENUNCIATE
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke. - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - INEVIDENCE
Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow. - RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.