Attribute
Attribute verb - To explain (something) as being the result of something else.
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Synonyms for Attribute
Hint and attribute are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hint" instead a verb "Attribute".
How words are described
| good | good attribute | good hint |
| nice | nice attribute | nice hint |
| common | common attribute | common hint |
| single | single attribute | single hint |
| Other adjectives: actual, large, huge, main, important, vague, explicit, last, red, strongest. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- And Unix grognards will go into screaming hissy fits at any hint that perhaps the "innovations" they attribute to their favorite hack might have existed long before it.
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You should be able to guess which Attribute has all of the best burners (hint: it's red and has the Kanji for fire on it).
Source: Kill It with Fire -
Informed Attribute: General Bauker of Laus is allegedly not such a bad guy, according to the NPCs, but he never displays any sympathetic traits or a hint of regret for the sack of Caelin.
Source: Video Game / Fire Emblem Elibe
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Hint and Attribute. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/attribute/hint
Attribute & Hint. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/attribute/hint>.
Hint or Attribute. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/attribute/hint.
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