implication

Nouns

  • (n) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
    • his resignation had political implications
    entailment, deduction,
  • (n) 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
    significance, import,
  • (n) an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection
  • (n) a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form "if p then q"; if p is true then q cannot be false conditional relation, logical implication,
  • (n) a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
    • he was suspected of implication in several robberies

Synonyms

entailment deduction significance import conditional relation logical implication

Words of close approximity

implicative
implicational