| Main Entry: | clue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give information |
Synonyms: |
acquaint, advise, apprise, fill in, give the lowdown, give the skinny on, hint, indicate, inform, intimate, lead to, leave evidence, leave trace, leave tracks, notify, point to, post, suggest, tell, warn, wise up |
Antonyms: |
hide, keep secret |
| 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: | indicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signify, display |
Synonyms: |
add up to, announce, argue, attest, augur, be symptomatic, bespeak, betoken, button down, card, connote, demonstrate, denote, designate, evidence, evince, express, finger, hint, illustrate, imply, import, intimate, make, manifest, mark, mean, name, peg, pin down, pinpoint*, point out, point to, prove, read, record, register, reveal, show, sign, signal, slot, specify, suggest, symbolize, tab, tag, testify, witness |
Antonyms: |
conceal, hide, mislead |
| 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: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signify, convey |
Synonyms: |
add up, adumbrate, allude, allude to, argue, attest, augur, betoken, connote, denote, designate, determine, drive at, express, foreshadow, foretell, herald, hint at, imply, import, indicate, intimate, involve, name, point to, portend, presage, promise, purport, represent, say, speak of, spell, stand for, suggest, symbolize, tell the meaning of, touch on |
| Main Entry: | mention |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | refer to |
Synonyms: |
acknowledge, acquaint, adduce, advert, allude to, bring up, broach, call attention to, cite, communicate, declare, designate, detail, disclose, discuss, divulge, enumerate, hint at, impart, infer, instance, intimate, introduce, make known, name, notice, notify, observe, point out, point to, quote, recount, remark, report, reveal, speak about, speak of, specify, state, suggest, tell, throw out, touch on |
| Main Entry: | name |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choose, designate |
Synonyms: |
announce, appoint, cite, classify, commission, connote, declare, delegate, denote, elect, identify, index, instance, list, make, mark, mention, nominate, peg, pin down, point to, put down for, put finger on, recognize, refer to, remark, select, signify, single out, slot, specify, suggest, tab, tag, tap |
Antonyms: |
ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | portend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | foreshadow, indicate |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, augur, be in the cards, bespeak, betoken, bode, call*, crystal-ball, forebode, forecast, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, have a hunch, herald, hint, omen, point to, predict, premonish, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read, see coming, threaten, warn of |
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict or have a feeling |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, announce, augur, betoken, bode, divine, feel, forebode, forecast, forerun, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, herald, intuit, omen, point to, portend, preindicate, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, sense, signify, soothsay, vaticinate, warn |
| Main Entry: | prognosticate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, foretell |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, augur, betoken, call it, crystal-ball, divine, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, harbinger, have a hunch, herald, make book, point to, portend, presage, prophesy, read, see coming, soothsay, vaticinate |