entail

Meaning

Verb

1. To imply, require, or invoke.
2. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
3. (obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
4. (obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

Noun

1. That which is entailed.
2. That which is entailed.
3. That which is entailed.
4. (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Synonyms

involve

implicate

imply

necessitate

require

mean

bring about

fee-tail

claim

result in

call

call for

demand

exact

command

conduce

create

cry

😢

travel along

do

dog

🐕

draw

employ

engender

ensue

entablature

eventuate

apply

fall out

follow

follow suit

govern

cause

call in

induce

insist

bear on

keep

keep tabs on

keep track

make

attend

ask

need

needs

pediment

postdate

postulate

press

provoke

raise

arrogate

requisition

result

accompany

set up

stipulate

succeed

suppose

take

take after

trace

urge

want

watch

⌚

yield

come down on

come forth

cry out for

fee tail

tag along

come

come after

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛnˈteɪl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: entaillen

Cognate with Latin: feudum talliatum

Inherited from Middle English: entaille

In summary

From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).