Hinting and Implied

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Implied and hinting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Implied" instead an adjective "Hinting".

Nearby Words: hint, hinted

Implied adjective - Understood although not put into words.

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Hinting and implied are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hinting" instead an adjective "Implied".

Nearby Words: imply, implication, implying

The dead woman that the alien gets her clothes from at the beginning is implied to be the protagonist's predecessor, hinting that after the alien's death, someone will come to replace her, too.

Source: Film / Under the Skin
Strongly implied by Major Frank "Ferret Face" Burns in Mash, who regularly drops comments hinting at a very abusive family life as part of his Freudian Excuse.

Source: Dark and Troubled Past
She's implied to have lost a lot of faith in humanity over some traumatic event in her past that she refuses to elaborate on besides hinting that it involved the death of her father.

Source: Mysterious Waif

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