Andeutung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- adumbration noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
- hint noun A small clue or suggestion that helps someone understand or guess something.
- implication noun A possible or likely consequence of an action or decision.
- insinuation noun An indirect hint or suggestion, usually implying something unflattering.
- wink verb To close and quickly reopen one eye as a signal, joke, or private message to someone.
Senses
Andeutung is used for these senses in English:
- adumbration (countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
- hint An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- implication (countable, uncountable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
- insinuation That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion, innuendo or intimation by distant allusion
- wink A subtle allusion.
adumbration — full definition
- noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
- noun A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
- noun The supposed practice of displaying only outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
- noun A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
hint — full definition
- noun A small clue or suggestion that helps someone understand or guess something.
- noun A very small trace or amount of something.
- verb To suggest something indirectly, without saying it outright.