implies
Says without saying
Implies means to suggest or indicate something without stating it directly.
A raised eyebrow implies skepticism; silence may imply consent.
The word also carries logical force: Smoke implies fire.
To imply is to put meaning into a statement; the listener then infers that meaning.
Her tone implied she wasn't happy about it.
Logical necessity from premises
- entailsNecessarily requires or includes
- premiseFoundation for logical argument
- consequentFollowing as an effect
- antecedentSomething that precedes
corollary · deduction · syllogism · validity · necessary · sufficient · conditional · presupposition
Indirect suggestion
- insinuateSuggest without directly stating
- intimateClosely personal or private
- alludeRefer indirectly
- connoteSuggest beyond literal meaning
signify · indicate · convey · evoke · suggest · insinuation · allusion · intimation
entailment
Logical necessity from premises
- entailsNecessarily requires or includes
- premiseFoundation for logical argument
- consequentFollowing as an effect
antecedent · corollary · deduction · syllogism · validity · necessary · sufficient · conditional · presupposition · proposition
hint
Indirect suggestion
connote · signify · indicate · convey · evoke · suggest · insinuation · allusion · intimation · innuendo
result
What follows a cause
- outcomeFinal result of events
- effectResult of a cause
- ramificationSecondary consequence of action
repercussion · follow · mean · lead to · entail · suggest · indicate · carry · involve · necessitate
deduce
Reach by reasoning
- concludeEnd or infer
- inferDerive by reasoning
- extrapolateExtend known data outward
surmise · presume · assume · reason · interpret · glean · derive · read into · gather · understand
- logicpremise, premises, conclusion, conclusions, inference
- logic wordsand, or, not, therefore, ergo
- signifiesrepresents, means, signifies, denotes, stands for
- proofsproof by contradiction, contrapositive, contradiction, theorem, lemma
- math operationsaddition, adding, subtraction, subtracting, multiplication
- conditionalsif, then, if clause, if clauses, else
impliesdeclares
States openly and firmly
states · asserts · articulates · announces · spells out
impliesproves
Establishes truth of
demonstrates · establishes · confirms · verifies · guarantees
- implied threat
- implicit biasAutomatic, unintentional stereotyping
- implied meaningUnstated but understood sense
- implied consentPermission inferred, not stated
- implicit agreementConsent inferred, not stated
- implicit biasesAutomatic associations affecting judgment