insinuate
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
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner
He insinuated himself into the conversation of the people at the nearby table
Types & categories
- bring in hypernym
Sense 2 verb
give to understand
I insinuated that I did not like his wife
Types & categories
- hint hypernym
Related & opposite
- inkling derivation
- insinuation derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | bring in |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | inkling |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | insinuation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hint |