Definitions for implication

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implication im·pli·ca·tion

Spelling: [im-pli-key-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌɪm plɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Implication is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 678 anagrams from letters in implication (aciiilmnopt).

Definitions for implication

noun

1. something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood:
2. the act of implying:
3. the state of being implied:
4. Logic. the relation that holds between two propositions, or classes of propositions, in virtue of which one is logically deducible from the other.
5. the act of implicating or indicating that one or more persons may be involved, as in a crime:
6. the state of being implicated:
7. Usually, implications. relationships of a close or intimate nature; involvements:

Origin of implication

1400-50; late Middle English implicacio(u)n Latin implicātiōn- (stem of implicātiō) an interweaving, equivalent to implicāt(us) (see implicate) + -iōn- Examples for implication

The implication of some German news stories is that he was almost a charity case.

"We must make haste, Miss Calendar," said Kirkwood, ignoring the implication.

If these papers do not say so plainly, they say it by implication.

Yet another important barrier to addressing this issue is the implication for statin sales.

I should have been shot for that but His Majesty did not see the implication.

The implication is that she might even have assisted her husband inflicting his superficial wounds.

I wish it were possible to speak of God without the implication of dealing with religion.

Outside of the absurdity of “blood splatter” flying through the air is the implication that Ebola can be “breathed” at all.

This, it must be observed, was not a direct falsehood: it was such only by implication.

The implication here is that they adopt the dress and mannerisms of men because they have failed as women.