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[ im-plahyd ] / ɪmˈplaɪd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR implied ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveinvolved, indicated, or suggested without being directly or explicitly stated; tacitly understood: an implied rebuke; an implied compliment. Origin of impliedFirst recorded in 1520–30; imply + -ed2 OTHER WORDS FROM impliedim·pli·ed·ly [im-plahy-id-lee], /ɪmˈplaɪ ɪd li/, adverbun·im·plied, adjectivewell-im·plied, adjectiveWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH impliedexplicit, implicit, implied Words nearby impliedimplicit bias, implicit differentiation, implicit function, implicit function theorem, implicitly, implied, implied consent, implied warranty, implode, implore, implosion Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for implied“Call me when the plane leaves the ground,” she said, in a tone that implied she knew her husband well. Mario Cuomo, a Frustrating Hero to Democrats, Is Dead at 82|Eleanor Clift|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST In doing so, he implied the obsolescence of that most embedded of British watering holes, the pub. Beer Countries vs. Wine Countries|Clive Irving|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST It was a duel on a larger scale, with all the uncertainty and danger that implied. How Clausewitz Invented Modern War|James A. Warren|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will implied in an interview that Ebola may be airborne. George Will, Fox News, and the Beginning of an Ebola Conspiracy|Russell Saunders|October 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But Francis has also implied that his hands are tied when it comes to changing doctrine or altering church teachings. The Pope vs. the Church on Family Values?|Barbie Latza Nadeau|October 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST If you had said or implied she was a lady, she would have shrunk as from a covert reflection on the quality of her work. The Flight of the Shadow|George MacDonald In other words, the old era is ended; what is implied when we say a new era is entered upon? 'Tis Sixty Years Since|Charles Francis Adams Lynch implied there were no osteological bases for the separation of Eleutherodactylus, Syrrhophus, and Tomodactylus. A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope|John D. Lynch For that it did demand time, and that it was not an instantaneous creation, is implied in the expression "to form." The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality|Rudolf Schmid But he remembered that Minna had not bound him to secrecy, though, of course, it was implied. The Vanishing of Betty Varian|Carolyn Wells
British Dictionary definitions for implied
adjectivehinted at or suggested; not directly expressedan implied criticism Derived forms of impliedimpliedly (ɪmˈplaɪɪdlɪ), adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to impliedlatent, tacit, implicit, unspoken, lurking, hidden, indirect, suggested, intended, indicated, involved, inferred, occult, understood, unsaid, parallel, meant, figured, connoted, insinuated |