 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
implication
noun
1: something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied);
"his resignation had political implications" [syn: {deduction},
{entailment}]
2: 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" [syn: {significance}, {import}]
3: an accusation that brings into intimate and usually
incriminating connection
4: a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form
'if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false [syn: {logical
implication}, {conditional relation}]
5: a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close
connection (especially an incriminating involvement); "he
was suspected of implication in several robberies"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Implication \Im'pli*ca"tion\, noun [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
180 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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