From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implico, from in ("in") + plicare.

• (America, RP) IPA: /ɪmˈplaɪ/

imply (implies, present participle implying; simple past and past participle implied)

1. (transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence

   Correlation does not imply causation

   The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal.

2. (transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference

   When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown.

3. (transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement

   What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?

4. (archaic) to enfold, entangle.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:

     And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.

• (to have as a necessary consequence) entail
• (to suggest tacitly) allude, hint, insinuate, suggest, (proscribed) infer

• implicate
• implication
• implicative
• implicit
• implicitness

• French: impliquer
• German: implizieren, zur Folge haben
• Italian: implicare
• Portuguese: implicar, ter como consequência, acarretar
• Russian: предполага́ть
• Spanish: implicar, acarrear, conllevar

• French: impliquer
• German: implizieren
• Russian: подразумева́ть
• Spanish: implicar

• French: insinuer, sous-entendre
• German: bedeuten, implizieren
• Portuguese: dar a entender, insinuar
• Russian: намека́ть
• Spanish: insinuar, dar a entender