allude

Meaning of allude

verb
  1. suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at.
    she had a way of alluding to Jean but never saying her name

late 15th century (in the sense ‘hint at, suggest’): from Latin allus-, alludere, from ad- ‘towards’ + ludere ‘to play’.

Information about allude

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of allude is: alludes.
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Hyphenation of allude

al-lude

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • allude is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

allude synonyms

Meaning touch:

touch, advert

Meaning put forward for consideration:

suggest

Meaning indicate the truth or existence of (something) by suggestion rather than explicit reference:

imply

Meaning refer to (something) briefly and without going into detail:

mention

Meaning refer to (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work:

cite

Translation of allude

Anagrams of allude

aludel, Udella

Words that rhyme with allude

lude, Quaalude, palude, quaalude, ablude, blude, Baraclude, aquiclude, circumclude, coinclude, conclude, disocclude, exclude, foreconclude, include, interclude, obclude, occlude, preclude, preconclude, preexclude, preinclude, pseudoconclude, reclude, reconclude, reinclude, seclude, antelude, delude, elude, predelude, prelude, undelude, hastilude, collude, disillude, illude, preallude, precollude, reallude, interlude, postlude

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