Usually means: Hinting or suggesting something indirectly.
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  1. intimation: Merriam-Webster
  2. intimation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intimation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. intimation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Intimation, intimation: Wordnik
  6. intimation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. intimation: Wiktionary
  8. intimation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Intimation, intimation: Dictionary.com
  10. Intimation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. intimation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  13. Intimation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. intimation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. intimation: FreeDictionary.org
  16. intimation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. intimation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. intimation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. intimation: Legal dictionary

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  1. intimation: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (intimation)

▸ noun:  The act of intimating.
▸ noun:  The thing intimated.
▸ noun:  Announcement; declaration.
▸ noun:  A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference.

Similar:
inkling, hint, breath, implication, information, induction, notification, indigitation, immission, indic., more...

Opposite:
explicitness, clarity, openness, transparency

Adjectives:
first, slightest, least, previous, official, clearest, divine, plain, only, earliest, distinct

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Similar:
inkling, hint, breath, implication, information, induction, notification, indigitation, immission, indic., more...

Opposite:
explicitness, clarity, openness, transparency

Adjectives:
first, slightest, least, previous, official, clearest, divine, plain, only, earliest, distinct

Colors:
    pale gold,     soft lavender,     muted teal,     gentle rose,     subtle beige, more...



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