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Implication

Implication Meaning & Definition
Implication Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Implication?

[n] something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"
[n] a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
[n] an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection
[n] a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"
[n] a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false

Synonyms | Synonyms for Implication: conditional relation | deduction | entailment | import | logical implication | significance

Related Terms | Find terms related to Implication: absorption | accusal | accusation | accusing | affective meaning | allegation | allegement | allegory | allusion | arcane meaning | arraignability | arraignableness | arraignment | assault | association | assumption | attack | bearing | bill of particulars | blame | blameworthiness | bloody hands | bringing of charges | bringing to book | broad hint | burden | censurability | censurableness | censure | charge | chargeability | citation | clue | coloration | coloring | complaint | complicity | conclusion | connection | connotation | consequence | count | criminality | cue | culpability | delation | denotation | denouncement | denunciation | dirty hands | drift | effect | embarrassment | engagement | enmeshment | entailment | entanglement | essence | extension | force | gentle hint | gesture | gist | glimmer | glimmering | grammatical meaning | guilt | guiltiness | guilty conscience | hint | idea | impact | impeachability | impeachableness | impeachment | implied meaning | import | impugnment | imputation | inclusion | incrimination | inculpation | index | indication | indictability | indictableness | indictment | inference | information | inkling | innuendo | insinuation | intension | intimation | involution | involvement | ironic suggestion | kick | lawsuit | laying of charges | lexical meaning | literal meaning | look | meaning | metaphorical sense | nod | nuance | nudge | occult meaning | onus | overtone | peccancy | pertinence | pith | plaint | point | practical consequence | presumption | presupposition | prompt | prosecution | purport | range of meaning | real meaning | red-handedness | reference | referent | relation | relevance | reprehensibility | reproach | reproachableness | reprovability | reprovableness | scent | scope | semantic cluster | semantic field | sense | sign | signal | significance | signification | significatum | signifie | span of meaning | spirit | spoor | structural meaning | subsense | subsidiary sense | substance | subsumption | suggestion | suit | sum | sum and substance | supposition | suspicion | symbolic meaning | symbolism | symptom | taxing | telltale | tenor | tinge | totality of associations | touch | track | transferred meaning | true bill | unadorned meaning | undercurrent | undermeaning | undertone | unspoken accusation | value | veiled accusation | whisper | wink

See Also | accusal | accusation | illation | inference | innuendo | insinuation | involvement | logical relation | meaning | substance | unspoken accusation | veiled accusation

Implication In Webster's Dictionary

\Im`pli*ca"tion\, n. [L. implicatio: cf. F. implication.] 1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. --Boyle. 2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words. Whatever things, therefore, it was asserted that the king might do, it was a necessary implication that there were other things which he could not do. --Hallam.

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