implication
- something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood: to resent an implication of dishonesty.
- the act of implying: His implication of immediate changes surprised us.
- the state of being implied: to know only by implication.
- Logic. the relation that holds between two propositions, or classes of propositions, in virtue of which one is logically deducible from the other.
- the act of implicating or indicating that one or more persons may be involved, as in a crime: The implication of his accomplices came only after hours of grueling questioning by the police.
- the state of being implicated: We recently heard of his implication in a conspiracy.
- Usually implications. relationships of a close or intimate nature; involvements: the religious implications of ancient astrology.
Origin of implication
Synonyms for implication
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connotation, meaning, indication, significance, ramification, overtone, conclusion, presumption, guess, inference, reference, hint, innuendo, assumption, entanglement, union, connection, undertone, involvement, intimationExamples from the Web for implication
Contemporary Examples of implication
Outside of the absurdity of “blood splatter” flying through the air is the implication that Ebola can be “breathed” at all.
The implication is that she might even have assisted her husband inflicting his superficial wounds.
The implication of some German news stories is that he was almost a charity case.
The CIA’s Bumbling German Spy Was More Austin Powers and Less James BondChristopher Dickey, Nadette De Visser
July 8, 2014
Yet another important barrier to addressing this issue is the implication for statin sales.
The implication here is that they adopt the dress and mannerisms of men because they have failed as women.
Historical Examples of implication
I wish it were possible to speak of God without the implication of dealing with religion.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
This, it must be observed, was not a direct falsehood: it was such only by implication.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. IFrancis Augustus Cox
"We must make haste, Miss Calendar," said Kirkwood, ignoring the implication.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
I should have been shot for that but His Majesty did not see the implication.
City of Endless NightMilo Hastings
If these papers do not say so plainly, they say it by implication.
The House Under the SeaSir Max Pemberton
implication
- the act of implicating or the state of being implicated
- something that is implied; suggestionthe implication of your silence is that you're bored
- logic
- the operator that forms a sentence from two given sentences and corresponds to the English if … then …
- a sentence so formed. Usually written p→q or p⊃q, where p,q are the component sentences, it is true except when p (the antecedent) is true and q (the consequent) is false
- the relation between such sentences
Word Origin and History for implication
early 15c., "action of entangling," from Latin implicationem (nominative implicatio) "interweaving, entanglement," from past participle stem of implicare "involve, entangle, connect closely," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + plicare "to fold" (see ply (v.1)). Meaning "something implied (but not expressed)" is from 1550s.