imply
verb
[ ɪmˈplʌɪ ]
• indicate the truth or existence of (something) by suggestion rather than explicit reference.
• "salesmen who use jargon to imply superior knowledge"
Similar:
implicit,
indirect,
hinted,
suggested,
insinuated,
deducible,
inferred,
understood,
oblique,
unspoken,
unexpressed,
undeclared,
unstated,
unsaid,
tacit,
unacknowledged,
not spelt out,
silent,
taken for granted,
taken as read,
assumed,
insinuate,
suggest,
hint,
intimate,
implicate,
say indirectly,
indicate,
give someone to understand,
give someone to believe,
convey the impression,
signal,
make out,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare, from in- ‘in’ + plicare ‘to fold’. The original sense was ‘entwine’; in the 16th and 17th centuries the word also meant ‘employ’. Compare with employ and implicate.
