Word Meanings - INTIMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated. 2. Announcement; declaration. Macaulay. They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. Holland. 3. A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice;

Additional info about word: INTIMATION

1. The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated. 2. Announcement; declaration. Macaulay. They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. Holland. 3. A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design. Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him. Bp. Burnet.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTIMATION)

• Message
• Communication
• intimation
• missive
• notice

Related words: (words related to INTIMATION)

• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• MESSAGE STICK
  A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australian aborigines, to convey information.
• COMMUNICATION
  A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of
• MESSAGER
  A messenger.
• NOTICEABLE
  Capable of being observed; worthy of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicous. A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. Wordsworth.
• NOTICER
  One who notices.
• NOTICEABLY
  In a noticeable manner.
• INTIMATION
  1. The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated. 2. Announcement; declaration. Macaulay. They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. Holland. 3. A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice;
• MESSAGE
  1. Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another. Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. Judg. iii. 20. 2. Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a
• MISSIVE
  1. Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive. Ayliffe. 2. Missile. "The missive weapons fly." Dryden. Letters missive, letters conveying the permission, comand, or advice of a superior authority, as a sovereign. They
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• PERMISSIVE
  1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive will." Milton. 2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton.
• IRREMISSIVE
  Not remitting; unforgiving.
• TRANSMISSIVE
  Capable of being transmitted; derived, or handed down, from one to another. Itself a sun, it with transmissive light Enlivens worlds denied to human sight. Prior.
• OMISSIVE
  Leaving out; omitting. Bp. Hall. -- O*mis"sive*ly, adv.
• PREINTIMATION
  Previous intimation; a suggestion beforehand. T. Scott.
• SUBMISSIVE
  1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton. 2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as,
• NONSUBMISSIVE
  Not submissive.
• EMISSIVE
  Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.
• DEMISSIVE
  Downcast; submissive; humble. They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord .