meaning
|
|
|
|
| Main Entry: |
meaning |
| Synonyms: |
acceptation, aim, allegory, allusion, ambition, animus, arcane meaning, aspiration, assumption, balefulness, banefulness, bodefulness, characterization, coloration, connotation, construction, content, counsel, definition, denomination, denotation, description,
desideration, desideratum, design,
designation, desire, determination, diagnosis, differentiation,
direness, disclosure, doomfulness, drift, effect, essence,
explanation, expression, fatality, fatefulness, fingering, fixed
purpose, force, function, gist, hint, idea, identification, implication, implied meaning, import, indication, indicativeness, inference, innuendo, intendment, intent, intention, interpretation, intimation, ironic suggestion, manifestation, message, metaphorical sense, mind, motive, naming,
nisus, nuance, occult meaning, ominousness, overtone, picking out, plan, point, pointing, pointing out,
pointing to, portent, portentousness, presagefulness, presumption, presupposition,
project, proposal, prospectus, purport, purpose, reading, resolution, resolve, sake, selection, sense, show, showing, significance, significancy, signification,
sinisterness, specification, spirit,
striving, study, subsense,
subsidiary sense, substance, suggestion, suggestiveness, sum and substance, supposition, symbolism, symptomaticness, tenor, tinge, touch, undercurrent, undermeaning, understanding, undertone, value, view,
way of seeing, will
|
| |
| Main Entry: |
double meaning |
| Synonyms: |
ambiguity, ambiguousness, amphibology,
complexity of meaning, double entendre, double reference,
equivocacy, equivocality, equivocalness, equivocation, equivoque, irony, levels of
meaning, multivocality, paronomasia, polysemousness, polysemy, punning, richness of meaning, tergiversation,
uncertainty
|
| |
| Main Entry: |
literal meaning |
| Synonyms: |
affective meaning, bearing, coloring, connotation, consequence, denotation, drift, effect, essence, extension, force,
gist, grammatical meaning, idea,
impact, implication, import, intension, lexical meaning, meaning, overtone, pertinence, pith, point, practical consequence, purport, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, relation,
relevance, scope, semantic cluster,
semantic field, sense, significance,
signification, significatum, signifie, span of meaning, spirit, structural meaning, substance, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tenor, totality of associations, transferred
meaning, unadorned meaning, undertone, value
|
| |
| Main Entry: |
well-meaning |
| Synonyms: |
agreeable, amiable, amicable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, brotherly, congenial, cooperative, favorable, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, harmonious, kind, kindly-disposed, kindly, neighborlike, neighborly, peaceable, pleasant,
propitious, simpatico, sisterly, sociable, sympathique, unhostile, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meant
|
| |
Main entries similar to: meaning
aim, allegorical, allegory, allusion, ambition, animus, aspiration, assumption, bearing, characterization,
coloration, coloring, connotation, connotative, consequence,
construction, counsel, definition, denomination, denotative,
description, desideratum, design, designation, desire, determination, diagnosis, differentiation, disclosure, drift, effect, essence, explanation, expression, expressive, extended, extension, fatality, figurative, fingering, force, function, gist,
hint, idea, identification, impact, implication, import, indicative, inference, innuendo, intelligible, intent, intention, interpretable, intimation, literal meaning,
manifestation, matter, meaningful, meaty, message, metaphorical, mind, motive, naming, nuance, overtone, pertinence, pith, pithy, plan, point, pointed, portent,
pregnant, presumption, presupposition, project, proposal, prospectus, purport, purpose, readable, reading, reference, referent, referential, relation, relevance, resolution, resolve, rhyme, sake, scope, selection, sense, sententious,
show, showing, significance, significant, signification,
specification, spirit, striving, study, substance, substantial, suggestion, suggestive, sum, supposition, symbolic, symbolical, symbolism, tenor, tinge, touch, undercurrent, understanding, undertone, value, view, will
|
