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Andeutung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adumbration noun The condition of being in shade, or, as a countable noun, a shadow itself.
  • 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

  1. noun The condition of being in shade, or, as a countable noun, a shadow itself.
  2. noun A rough drawing or short description that gives only the basic shape of something.
  3. noun (heraldry) The showing of a design only as an outline, sometimes shaded a darker color than the background.
  4. noun A rough or symbolic picture of something, or an early, unclear sign of what is to come.

hint — full definition

  1. noun A small clue or suggestion that helps someone understand or guess something.
  2. noun A very small trace or amount of something.
  3. verb To suggest something indirectly, without saying it outright.
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