imply

Meaning

  1. to have as a necessary consequence
  2. to suggest by logical inference
  3. to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
  4. to enfold, entangle.

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
im‧ply
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪmˈplaɪ/
Etymology

From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of employ and implicate.

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