scalar implicature
Linguistics
noun
(Of a gradable term or construction) an implicature that no stronger value can truthfully be used; the use of a relatively lower-valued term to implicate that no higher value is true.
Origin
1970s.
- polarimetric
- polarimetrically
- polarimetry
- polarinucleate
- Polaris
- polarisation
- polariscope
- polariscopic
- polariscopically
- polariscopy
- polarise
- polaristic
- polariton
- polaritonic
- polarity
- polarity epoch
- polarity therapy
- polarizable
- polarization
- polarization charge
- polarization microscope
- polarize
- polarized plug
- polarizer
- polarizing angle