implicature
noun/ˈɪmplɪkətʃə(r)/
/ˈɪmplɪkətʃər/
(specialist)- [uncountable] the act of suggesting that you feel or think something is true, without saying so directly
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- [countable] something that you can understand from what is said, but that is not stated directly
- An implicature of ‘Some of my friends came’ is ‘Some of my friends did not come’.
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