Another tendency of many Japanese speakers that bothers foreigners is to make statements that are too general and too broad by using or implying words like "all" and "every".
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Implying
Synonyms for "implying" (16 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Verb(4 words)
Strong matches (4)
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Related words (8)
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More general
11 entriescommunicationconsequenceconveyancedescriptive adjectiveentailmentindicationlinguistic actlinguistic attributenecessitysemantic relationsignal
More specific
13 entriesconditionalconnotationconnoted meaninghidden sensehinthintinginnuendoinsinuationinvolvenecessitateprobabilisticsecondary meaningsuggestive
Collocations
16 entriescausal implicationeconomic implicationimplying conclusionimplying contextimplying meaningimplying probabilityimplying relationshipimplying significancelinguistic implicationmoral implicationnegative implicationpolitical implicationpractical implicationpragmatic implicationstrong implicationunintended implication
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
8 entriesSample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Are you implying something?
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What are you implying?
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So what are you implying?
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