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Synonyms for signify
ˈsɪg nəˌfaɪsig·ni·fy
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
signify
Advert, mention, and refer are used of language that more or less distinctly utters a certain thought; the others of language from which it may be inferred. We allude to a matter slightly, perhaps by a word or phrase, as it were in byplay; we advert to it when we turn from our path to treat it; we refer to it by any clear utterance that distinctly turns the mind or attention to it; as, marginal figures refer to a parallel passage; we mention a thing by explicit word, as by naming it. The speaker adverted to the recent disturbances and the remissness of certain public officers; tho he mentioned no name, it was easy to see to whom he alluded. One may hint at a thing in a friendly way, but what is insinuated is always unfavorable, generally both hostile and cowardly. One may indicate his wishes, intimate his plans, imply his opinion, signify his will, suggest a course of action. Compare SUGGESTION.
Synonyms:
advert, allude, hint, imply, indicate, insinuate, intimate, mention, point, refer, suggestPreposition:
The passage evidently alludes to the Jewish Passover.
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Princeton's WordNet
mean, intend, signify, stand forverb
denote or connote
"`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"
Synonyms:
entail, mean, typify, hold still for, represent, destine, stand for, imply, symbolise, specify, have in mind, designate, think, correspond, think of, symbolize, intendsignifyverb
convey or express a meaning
"These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?"
signifyverb
make known with a word or signal
"He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
signifyverb
Synonyms:
denote, betoken, mean, imply, intimate, indicate, purportsignifyverb
Synonyms:
express, declare, proclaim, make knownsignifyverb
Synonyms:
import, matter, be of importance, be of consequence
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#325 | think | |
#438 | point | |
#1008 | mean | |
#2199 | suggest | |
#2884 | refer | |
#2976 | represent | |
#3159 | indicate | |
#3823 | specify | |
#3935 | mention | |
#5076 | communicate | |
#8834 | intend | |
#8915 | hint | |
#9197 | intimate | |
#9348 | declare | |
#9541 | advert | |
#10787 | imply | |
#11919 | correspond | |
#12883 | denote | |
#13120 | designate | |
#17054 | utter | |
#25856 | entail | |
#29166 | signify | |
#45028 | purport | |
#45058 | symbolize | |
#68716 | presage | |
#75845 | allude | |
#107601 | insinuate | |
#112350 | symbolise | |
#115369 | typify | |
#125593 | portend | |
#187258 | destine | |
#299067 | prognosticate |
How to use signify in a sentence?
These arrests signify that you’re not going to get away with hazing in the state of Virginia.
The welcome releases of 62 detainees then (in June), with a further 22 – including journalist Braulio Jatar and judge (Maria) Lourdes Afiuni – set free yesterday and the authorities' acceptance of two human rights officers in the country, signify the beginning of positive engagement on the country's many human rights issues.
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
The avant-garde is a connotation, every act here is a connotative value. The whole series of avant-garde movements do not signify, and yet their concepts are reconnotation.
Today signifies a very great day for our country. When the news was bad, we reported the bad news. We stand here today to signify good news.
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