imply

Other forms of imply

past tense or participle

implied

present participle

implying·

third person

implies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about imply

What does imply mean?

imply means "express or state indirectly". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in imply?

imply has 2 syllables: im-ply. The stress falls on "ply". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈplaɪ/.

What is another word for imply?

Close synonyms include connote, entail, mean, incriminate, inculpate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imply a common word?

imply is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with imply?

8 words rhyme with imply. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.