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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024im•pli•ca•tion /ˌɪmplɪˈkeɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. - something implied:[countable]The reporters discussed the implications of the president's speech.
- the state of being implicated:[uncountable]his implication in the crime.
- by implication, following from or implied by something else:That policy was a failure, and so, by implication, was the president who had proposed it.
See -plic-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024im•pli•ca•tion (im′pli kā′shən),USA pronunciation n. - something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood:to resent an implication of dishonesty.
- the act of implying:His implication of immediate changes surprised us.
- the state of being implied:to know only by implication.
- Philosophy[Logic.]the relation that holds between two propositions, or classes of propositions, in virtue of which one is logically deducible from the other.
- the act of implicating:the implication of his accomplices.
- the state of being implicated:We heard of his implication in a conspiracy.
- Usually, implications. relationships of a close or intimate nature;
involvements:the religious implications of ancient astrology.
- Latin implicātiōn- (stem of implicātiō) an interweaving, equivalent. to implicāt(us) (see implicate) + -iōn- -ion
- late Middle English implicacio(u)n 1400–50
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged associations, connections.
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