indication

Other forms of indication

plural

indications·

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 indication

What does indication mean?

indication means "something that serves to indicate or suggest". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indication?

indication has 4 syllables: in-di-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌɪndəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for indication?

Close synonyms include indicant, denotation, reading, meter reading. 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.

What is the opposite of indication?

The recorded antonyms are contraindication.

Is indication a common word?

indication 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 indication?

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