Imply means to express, suggest, or show something without stating it directly: A friend’s gruff manner would imply that she’s in a foul mood.
Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See
Adjective S.
indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement"
a.
Virtually involved or included; involved in substance;
inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or
expressed. See Imply.
imp. & p. p.
of Imply
Implied
Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See
Usage Examples
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
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