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signified

[sig-nuh-fahyd] / ˈsɪg nəˌfaɪd /

ADJECTIVE

implied

Synonyms

STRONGEST

hidden implicit indirect latent lurking tacit unspoken

STRONG

adumbrated connoted figured foreshadowed indicated inferred insinuated intended involved meant occult parallel suggested symbolized understood unsaid

WEAK

alluded to allusive constructive indicative inferential inherent perceptible potential significative tacitly assumed undeclared unexpressed unuttered wordless

Antonyms

STRONGEST

explicit open

WEAK

explicated expressed stated

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Signified its intention of remaining part of the British Empire.

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Signified by the same motions with the thumbs and forefingers that are used in shelling corn.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

The thing propounded, whereof we speake, is the thing Signified.

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John

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