| Main Entry: | entail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | require; result in |
Synonyms: |
bring about, call for, cause, demand, encompass, entangle, evoke, give rise to, impose, involve, lead to, necessitate, occasion, require, tangle |
| Main Entry: | imply |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate, mean |
Synonyms: |
betoken, connote, denote, designate, entail, evidence, give a hint, hint, import, include, insinuate, intend, intimate, involve, mention, point to, presuppose, refer, signify, suggest |
| Notes: | a speaker or writer implies, a hearer or reader infers, and implications are incorporated in statements while inferences are deduced from statements; imply means 'suggest indirectly that something is true' while infer means 'conclude or deduce something is true' and, further, to imply is to suggest or throw out a suggestion while to infer is to include or take in a suggestion infer means 'to deduce, reason' and imply means 'to hint at, suggest' |
Antonyms: |
define, explicate, express, state |
| Main Entry: | include |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | contain, involve |
Synonyms: |
accommodate, add, admit, allow for, append, be composed of, be made up of, bear, build, build in, carry, combine, comprehend, comprise, consist of, constitute, count, cover, cut in on, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, entail, enter, have, hold, implicate, incorporate, inject, insert, interject, interpolate, introduce, make allowance for, make room for, number, number among, receive, subsume, take in, take into account, teem with, work in |
Antonyms: |
eliminate, exclude, neglect, reject |
| Main Entry: | involve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | draw in; include |
Synonyms: |
absorb, affect, argue, associate, bind, catch, commit, complicate, comprehend, comprise, compromise, concern, connect, contain, cover, denote, embrace, embroil, engage, engross, enmesh, entail, entangle, grip, hold, hook, implicate, imply, incorporate, incriminate, inculpate, link, mean, mire, mix up, necessitate, number, point to, preoccupy, presuppose, prove, relate, require, rivet, rope in, snarl up, suggest, take in, tangle, touch, wrap up in |
Antonyms: |
exclude, free, remove |
| Main Entry: | necessitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call for, make necessary |
Synonyms: |
ask, behoove, cause, coerce, command, compel, constrain, crave, demand, drive, entail, force, impel, make, oblige, postulate, require, take |
| Main Entry: | require |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask, demand; necessitate |
Synonyms: |
assert oneself, beg, beseech, bid, call for, call upon, cause, challenge, claim, command, compel, constrain, crave, demand, direct, enjoin, entail, exact, expect, insist upon, instruct, involve, look for, obligate, oblige, order, postulate, push for, request, requisition, solicit, take |