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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | connoting |
| Synonyms: | hinting, implying, meaning, referring, suggesting |
| Main Entry: | essentiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence |
| Synonyms: | being, embodiment, essentialness, heart, importance, meaning, nature, quintessence, significance, substance |
| Main Entry: | explication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation |
| Synonyms: | account, answer, brief, clarification, decipherment, description, details, elucidation, exegesis, exposition, illumination, interpretation, meaning, report, summary |
| Main Entry: | rendering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interpretation |
| Synonyms: | analysis, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, clarification, comprehension, discernment, execution, explanation, grasp, grip, insight, judgment, knowing, meaning, perception, performance, reading, realization, rendition, slant*, translation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | significancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, aim, approximation, belief, brainstorm*, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, design, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash*, form, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, inkling, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, pattern, perception, plan, point, purport, purpose, reason, scheme, sense, significance, solution, suggestion, suspicion, teaching, theory, thought, understanding, view, viewpoint |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | point or direct at a goal |
| Synonyms: | address, angle, aspire, attempt, cast, concentrate, contemplate, covet, design, direct, endeavor, essay, fix, focus, intend, level, mean, plan, propose, purpose, set one's sights on, sight, slant, steer, strive, target, train, try, want, wish, zero in on, zoom in |
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | equal, add up to |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, approach, approximate, be equivalent to, be tantamount to, become, check with, come to, correspond, develop into, effect, extend, grow, match, mean, number, purport, reach, rival, sum, tally, total, touch |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money |
| Main Entry: | connote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imply |
| Synonyms: | add up to, betoken, denote, designate, evidence, express, hint at, import, indicate, insinuate, intend, intimate, involve, mean, signify, spell, suggest |
| Notes: | denote means to make known or plainly mean, while connote means to express or state indirectly or imply |
| Antonyms: | denote |
| Main Entry: | contemplate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think about seriously; plan |
| Synonyms: | aim, aspire to, brood over, chew over, consider, cool out, deliberate, design, envisage, excogitate, expect, foresee, intend, kick around, mean, meditate on, mind, mull over, muse over, observe, percolate, perpend, ponder, propose, purpose, reflect upon, ruminate, size up, speculate, study, take in, think of, weigh |
| Antonyms: | discard, disregard, forget, neglect, scorn, slight |
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