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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

implicação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ĩ.pli.ka.ˈsɐ̃w

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Implication/ˌɪm.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1450 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A implicação de suas palavras era clara."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A conclusion that can be drawn from something, although it is not explicitly stated.

    "The implication of her words was clear; she wanted to end the discussion."
  2. 2

    The action of implying something, especially in a subtle or indirect way.

    "His implication in the project was not immediately obvious."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin implicationem, meaning an entanglement or complication, stemming from the Latin verb implicare (to enfold or involve). Over the centuries, the meaning shifted from physical enfolding to the logical 'folding in' of a consequence, meaning, or significance.

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