Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | revealing |
| Synonyms: | disclosing, evidential, giveaway, indicatory, informative, meaningful, pointing to, prognostic, significant, significatory, suggestive |
| Main Entry: | clue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hint, evidence |
| Synonyms: | cue, dead giveaway, hot lead, indication, inkling, intimation, key, lead, mark, notion, pointer, print, proof, sign, solution, suggestion, suspicion, telltale, tip, tip-off, trace, track, wind |
| Main Entry: | cue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | signal to act |
| Synonyms: | catchword, clue, hint, hot lead, idea, in the wind, indication, inkling, innuendo, intimation, job, key, lead, mnemonic, nod, notion, prod, prompt, prompting, reminder, sign, suggestion, telltale, tip-off, warning |
| Notes: | a queue is a line of people or vehicles waiting for something or an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted; a cue is a signal or stimulus that helps to solve a problem or provides information about what to do - or a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards |
| Main Entry: | gossip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who talks a lot, spreads |
| Synonyms: | blabbermouth, busybody, chatterbox, chatterer, circulator, flibbertigibbet, gossipmonger, informer, meddler, newsmonger, parrot, prattler, rumormonger, rumors babbler, scandalizer, scandalmonger, snoop, talebearer, tattler, telltale |
| Main Entry: | guide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information, instructions |
| Synonyms: | ABCs, beacon*, bellwether, bible, catalog, chapter and verse, clue, compendium, directory, enchiridion, guidebook, guiding light, handbook, hot lead, key, landmark, lodestar, manual, mark, marker, no-no's, pointer, print, sign, signal, signpost, telltale, the book, the numbers, tip-off, vade mecum |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication; suggestion |
| Synonyms: | adumbration, advice, allusion, announcement, clue, communication, connotation, denotation, evidence, flea in ear, glimmering, help, idea, implication, impression, inference, information, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, iota, lead, mention, notice, notion, observation, omen, pointer, print, reference, reminder, scent, sign, signification, smattering, suspicion, symptom, taste, telltale, tinge, tip, tip-off, token, trace, warning, whiff, whisper, wink, word to wise, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | indication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evidence, clue |
| Synonyms: | adumbration, attestation, augury, auspice, cue, earnest, explanation, expression, forewarning, gesture, hint, implication, index, indicia, inkling, intimation, manifestation, mark, nod, note, notion, omen, pledge, portent, preamble, prefiguration, prognostic, prolegomenon, proof, reminder, show, sign, signal, significant, signifier, suggestion, symptom, telltale, token, trace, vestige, warning, wind*, wink |
| Antonyms: | misinformation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intimation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clue, hint |
| Synonyms: | allusion, announcement, breath, communication, cue, declaration, implication, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, notice, notion, reminder, shade, shadow, strain, streak, suggestion, suspicion, telltale, tinge, tip, trace, warning, wind |
| Main Entry: | notion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, idea |
| Synonyms: | angle, apprehension, approach, assumption, awareness, clue, comprehension, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness, consideration, cue, discernment, flash, hint, image, imagination, impression, inclination, indication, inkling, insight, intellection, intimation, intuition, judgment, knowledge, opinion, penetration, perception, sentiment, slant, spark, suggestion, telltale, thought, twist, understanding, view, wind, wrinkle |
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