imply
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
express or state indirectly
Types & categories
- express hypernym
Related & opposite
- significance derivation
- connotation derivation
- suggestive derivation
Sense 2 verb
suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic
Types & categories
- express hypernym
- presuppose hyponym
- intimate hyponym
- connote hyponym
Related & opposite
- logical implication derivation
- suggestive derivation
Sense 3 verb
have as a logical consequence
The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers
Types & categories
- necessitate hypernym
Related & opposite
- entailment derivation
- suggestive derivation
Sense 4 verb
suggest that someone is guilty
Types & categories
- paint a picture hypernym
Related & opposite
- crime derivation
- crime derivation
- blame derivation
- implication derivation
- implication derivation
- inculpatory derivation
- criminative derivation
Sense 5 verb
have as a necessary feature
This decision involves many changes
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- entailment derivation
- involvement derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | significance |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | connotation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | suggestive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | express |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | logical implication |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | suggestive |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | express |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | presuppose |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | intimate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | connote |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | entailment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | suggestive |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | necessitate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | crime |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | crime |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | blame |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | implication |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | implication |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | inculpatory |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | criminative |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | paint a picture |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | entailment |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | involvement |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | feature |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | carry |