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insinuar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hint noun A small clue or suggestion that helps someone understand or guess something.
  • imply verb To suggest something indirectly without stating it outright.
  • insinuate verb To hint at something, usually something negative, without stating it outright.
  • suggest verb To put forward an idea or possibility for consideration.

Senses

insinuar is used for these senses in English:

  • hint (intransitive) To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
  • imply (transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
  • insinuate To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.
  • suggest (transitive) To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).

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.

imply — full definition

  1. verb To suggest something indirectly without stating it outright.
  2. verb To lead logically to a conclusion; to have as a necessary consequence.

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