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1: bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government" 2: impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this mov...

1: culpably involved; "all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified"; "named three officials implicated in the plot"; "an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime" [syn: ...

1: something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications" [syn: {deduction}, {entailment}] 2: a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be infer...

1: tending to suggest or imply; "artifacts suggestive of an ancient society"; "an implicative statement" [syn: {implicative}, {suggestive}, {suggestive of(p)}]

1: tending to suggest or imply; "artifacts suggestive of an ancient society"; "an implicative statement" [syn: {implicational}, {suggestive}, {suggestive of(p)}]

1: implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something; "an implicit agreement not to raise the subject"; "there was implicit criticism in his voice"; "anger was implicit in the...

1: in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning" [syn: {implicit in(p)}, {inherent}, {underlying}]

1: without doubting or questioning; "I implicitly trust him" 2: without ever expressing so clearly; "he implicitly assumes that you know the answer" [ant: {explicitly}]

1: inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect

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1: a trust inferred by operation of law

1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter" [syn: {impish}, {mischievous}, {pixilated}, {prankish}, {puckish}]

1: burst inward; "The bottle imploded" [syn: {go off}] [ant: {explode}]

1: call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!" [syn: {beg}, {pray}]

1: expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice" [syn: {appealing}...

1: in a beseeching manner; "`You must help me,' she said imploringly" [syn: {beseechingly}, {importunately}, {pleadingly}, {entreatingly}]

1: a sudden inward collapse; "the implosion of a light bulb" 2: the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant

1: a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them [syn: {flooding}]

1: express or state indirectly [syn: {connote}] 2: suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic 3: have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long s...

1: not polite [ant: {polite}]

1: in an impolite manner; "he treated her impolitely" [syn: {discourteously}, {rudely}, {showing bad manners}] [ant: {politely}, {politely}]

1: a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage [ant: {politeness}]

1: not politic; "an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue" [ant: {politic}]

1: difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision; "such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility" [ant: {ponderable}] n : a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed; "human b...

1: commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country [syn: {importation}] [ant: {export}] 2: an imported person brought from a foreign country; "the lead role was played by an import from ...

1: any regulation or policy that restricts international trade [syn: {trade barrier}]

1: credit opened by an importer at a bank in his own country upon which an exporter may draw

1: a duty imposed on imports

1: the quality of being important and worthy of note; "the importance of a well-balanced diet" [ant: {unimportance}] 2: a prominent status; "a person of importance" [syn: {grandness}]

1: of great significance or value; "important people"; "the important questions of the day" [syn: {of import}] [ant: {unimportant}] 2: important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws...

1: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events [syn: {influential person}, {personage}]

1: impressive in appearance

1: in an important way or to an important degree; "more importantly, Weber held that the manifold meaning attached to the event by the social scientist could alter his definition of the concrete event...

1: the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country [syn: {importing}] 2: commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country [syn: {import}] [ant: {export}]

1: used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source; "imported wines"

1: an imported person brought from a foreign country; "the lead role was played by an import from Sweden"; "they are descendants of indentured importees" [syn: {import}]

1: someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)

1: the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country [syn: {importation}]

1: expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice" [syn: {appealing}...

1: in a beseeching manner; "`You must help me,' she said imploringly" [syn: {beseechingly}, {imploringly}, {pleadingly}, {entreatingly}]

1: beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them" [syn: {insist}]

1: insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree" [syn: {urgency}, {urging}]

1: compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy" [syn: {enforce}] 2: impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students" [syn: {inflict}, {bring down}...

1: set forth authoritatively as obligatory; "the imposed taxation"; "rules imposed by society"

1: impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns" [syn: {baronial}, {noble}, {stately}]...

1: in an impressive manner; "the students progressed impressively fast" [syn: {impressively}] [ant: {unimpressively}]

1: the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) [syn: {infliction}] 2: an uncalled-for burden; "he listened but resented the imposition"

1: incapability of existing or occurring [syn: {impossibleness}] [ant: {possibility}] 2: an alternative that is not available [syn: {impossible action}]

1: not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with; "an impossible dream"; "an impossible situation" [ant: {possible}] 2: totally unlikely [syn: {inconceivable}, {out of the question}, {u...

1: an alternative that is not available [syn: {impossibility}]

1: incapability of existing or occurring [syn: {impossibility}] [ant: {possibility}]

1: in a manner or to a degree not possible of conceiving; "he is impossibly idealistic" [ant: {possibly}] 2: to a degree impossible of achievement; "long thought to be an impossibly difficult operatio...

1: money collected under a tariff [syn: {customs}, {customs duty}, {custom}] 2: the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs [syn: {springer}]

1: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: {impostor}, {pretender}, {fake}, {faker}, {fraud}, {sham}, {shammer}, {pseudo}, {pseud}, {role player}]

1: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: {imposter}, {pretender}, {fake}, {faker}, {fraud}, {sham}, {shammer}, {pseudo}, {pseud}, {role player}]

1: pretending to be another person [syn: {impersonation}]

1: the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble [syn: {powerlessness}, {impotency}] [ant: {power}, {power}] 2: an inability (usually of a male) to copulate [syn: {impotency}]

1: the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble [syn: {powerlessness}, {impotence}] [ant: {power}, {power}] 2: an inability (usually of a male) to copulate [syn: {impotence}]

1: lacking power or ability; "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson; "felt impotent rage" [ant: {potent}] 2: (of a male) unable to copulat...

1: in a helpless manner; "the crowd watched him helplessly" [syn: {helplessly}, {unable to help}]

1: take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork" [syn: {a...

1: placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law [syn: {impoundment}, {internment}, {poundage}]

1: placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law [syn: {impounding}, {internment}, {poundage}]

1: make poor [ant: {enrich}] 2: take away [syn: {deprive}] [ant: {enrich}]

1: poor enough to need help from others [syn: {destitute}, {indigent}, {necessitous}, {needy}, {poverty-stricken}] 2: destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family" [syn: {broken}, {wiped ...

1: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions [syn: {poverty}, {poorness}] [ant: {wealth}] 2: the act of making someone poor [syn: {pauperization}, {pauperisation}]

1: the quality of not being usable [syn: {impracticableness}] [ant: {practicability}, {practicability}]

1: not capable of being carried out or put into practice; "refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility"; "a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumst...

1: the quality of not being usable [syn: {impracticability}] [ant: {practicability}, {practicability}]

1: to an impracticable degree; "this is still impracticably high"

1: not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work" [ant: {pr...

1: concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use [ant: {practicality}]

1: a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression [syn: {imipramine}, {Imavate}, {Tofranil}]

1: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: {curse}, {beshrew}, {damn}, {bedamn}, {anathemize}, {anathemise}, {maledict}] [ant: {bless}] 2: utter obscenities or profani...

1: the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob" [syn: {malediction}] 2: a slanderous accusation

1: not precise; "imprecise astronomical observations"; "the terms he used were imprecise and emotional" [ant: {precise}]

1: in an imprecise manner; "he expressed himself imprecisely" [syn: {inexactly}] [ant: {precisely}, {precisely}]

1: the quality of lacking precision [syn: {imprecision}] [ant: {preciseness}, {preciseness}]

1: the quality of lacking precision [syn: {impreciseness}] [ant: {preciseness}, {preciseness}]

1: having the strength to withstand attack [syn: {invulnerability}]

1: able to withstand attack; "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable" [syn: {inviolable}, {secure}, {strong}, {unassailable}, {unattackable}] 2: impossible to take...

1: in an impregnable manner; "the sight of that bland, impregnably righteous face has been enough to make their blood run cold"

1: fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide" [syn: {infuse}, {instill}, {tincture}] 2: infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol" ...

1: made pregnant [syn: {fertilized}, {fertilised}, {inseminated}]

1: material with which something is impregnated; "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue" 2: the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of woo...

1: a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments [syn: {showman}, {promoter}]

1: the act of coercing someone into government service [syn: {impressment}] v 1: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as ...

1: deeply or markedly affected or influenced [syn: {impressed(p)}]

1: easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age" [syn: {impressionable}] [ant: {unimpressionable}]

1: a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling th...

1: easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age" [syn: {impressible}] [ant: {unimpressionable}]

1: a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light

1: relating to or characteristic of impressionism; "impressionist music" [syn: {impressionistic}] n : a painter who follows the theories of impressionism

1: of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning; "a surprisingly impressionistic review bearing marks of hasty composition"; "she had impressionistic memories of her c...

1: making a strong or vivid impression; "an impressive ceremony" [ant: {unimpressive}] 2: producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture" [syn: {telling}]

1: aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words [syn: {Wernicke's aphasia}, {fluent aphasia}, {receptive aphasia}, {se...

1: in an impressive manner; "the students progressed impressively fast" [syn: {imposingly}] [ant: {unimpressively}]

1: splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture" [syn: {grandness}, {magnificence}]

1: the act of coercing someone into government service [syn: {impress}]

1: formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" [syn: {sanction}, {countenance}, {endorsement}, {indorsement}, {warrant}]

1: a distinctive influence; "English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion" 2: a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" [syn: {d...

1: a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established

1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" [syn: {incarcerate}, {lag}, {immure}, {put behind bars...

1: in captivity [syn: {captive}, {confined}, {jailed}]

1: putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment 2: the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incar...

1: the quality of being improbable [syn: {improbableness}] [ant: {probability}]

1: not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred; "legislation on the question is highly unlikely"; "an improbable event" [syn: {unlikely}] [ant: {probable}] 2: having a probability to low to ...

1: the quality of being improbable [syn: {improbability}] [ant: {probability}]

1: not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains" [syn: {incredibly}, {implausibly}, {unbelievably}] [ant: {believably}, {credibl...

1: with little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore skit"; "an impromptu speech"; "o...

1: not suitable or right or appropriate; "slightly improper to dine alone with a married man"; "improper medication" [ant: {proper}] 2: not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; "an...

1: a fraction whose numerator is larger than the denominator

1: in an improper way; "he checked whether the wound had healed improperly" [ant: {properly}]

1: an improper demeanor [syn: {impropriety}] [ant: {propriety}, {propriety}]

1: an improper demeanor [syn: {improperness}] [ant: {propriety}, {propriety}] 2: an indecent or improper act [syn: {indecency}] 3: an act of undue intimacy [syn: {familiarity}, {indecorum}, {liberty}]

1: susceptible of improvement

1: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: {better}, {amend}, {ameliorate}, {meliorate}] [ant: {worsen}] 2: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: ...

1: made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing; "new houses are springing up on an improved tract of land near the river"; "an improved breed" [ant: {unim...

1: the act of improving something; "their improvements increased the value of the property" 2: a change for the better; progress in development [syn: {betterment}, {advance}] 3: a condition superior t...

1: someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms [syn: {humanitarian}, {do-gooder}] 2: a component that is added to something to improve it; "the addition of a bathroom was a...