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Indicate

To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

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Manner of action 27

Agree 76% connected

In good part; kindly.

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Augur 76% connected

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenome…

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Auspicate 76% connected

Auspicious.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Betoken 76% connected

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

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Bode 76% connected

To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Finger 76% connected

One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.

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Forecast 76% connected

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

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Foreshadow 76% connected

To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

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Foretell 76% connected

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

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Mark 76% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Omen 76% connected

An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a p…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Portend 76% connected

To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.

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Predict 76% connected

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

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Prefigure 76% connected

To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.

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Presage 76% connected

Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

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Prognosticate 76% connected

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

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Promise 76% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Read 76% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Record 76% connected

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

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Reflect 76% connected

To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…

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Register 76% connected

A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Signalize 76% connected

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

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Signify 76% connected

To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to exp…

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Broader term 4

Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Represent 76% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Derivationally related 10

Indicant 74% connected

Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.

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Indicant 74% connected

Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.

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Indication 74% connected

Act of pointing out or indicating.

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Indication 74% connected

Act of pointing out or indicating.

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Indicative 74% connected

Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious.

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Indicative 74% connected

Pointing out; bringing to notice; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious.

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Indicator 74% connected

One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.

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Indicator 74% connected

One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.

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Synonym 7

Argue 92% connected

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bespeak 92% connected

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Betoken 92% connected

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Designate 92% connected

Designated; appointed; chosen.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Point 92% connected

To appoint.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Show 92% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Signal 92% connected

A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agr…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Near synonym 1

Show 90% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

general 74% interchangeable

Indicate overlaps with show, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Softer synonym 4

Appear 88% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

cautious academic claims 62% interchangeable softer

Describes how something seems on available evidence.

May 88% connected

An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.

cautious academic claims 62% interchangeable softer

Expresses possibility.

Show 88% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

academic reporting verbs 62% interchangeable stronger

Use when evidence points towards a conclusion without proving it.

Suggest 88% connected

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

cautious academic claims 62% interchangeable softer

Signals a tentative interpretation.

Academic alternative 5

Show 86% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

caution 70% interchangeable less formal stronger

Indicate is appropriately cautious when evidence points towards a conclusion.

The data show growth. / The data indicate growth.
Consistent 84% connected

Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.

cautious academic claims 55% interchangeable

Shows that evidence fits a claim without proving it.

Likely 84% connected

Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story.

cautious academic claims 55% interchangeable

Expresses probability without certainty.

Tentative 84% connected

Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.

cautious academic claims 55% interchangeable

Not final and open to revision.

Inconclusive 82% connected

Not conclusive; leading to no conclusion; not closing or settling a point in debate, or a doubtful question; as, evidence is inconclusive when it doe…

cautious academic claims 55% interchangeable

Does not support a firm conclusion.

Antonym 2

Contraindicate 94% connected

To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require.

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Contraindicate 94% connected

To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require.

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