clues
Meaning of clues
plural noun
- a piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime.
police officers are still searching for clues
- a word or words giving an indication as to what is to be inserted in a particular space in a crossword.
a long-pondered clue in a half-completed crossword
- inform someone about a particular matter.
Stella had clued her in about Peter
late Middle English: variant of clew. The original sense was ‘a ball of thread’; hence one used to guide a person out of a labyrinth. clue (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the early 17th century.
Information about clues
- The singular form of clues is: clue.
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Hyphenation of clues
clues
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- clues is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
clues synonyms
Meaning a slight or indirect indication or suggestion:
Meaning a sign or piece of information that indicates something:
Meaning an object, quality, or event whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else:
Meaning an indication of a situation:
Meaning a hint as to what might happen in the future:
Meaning a person who shows the way to others, especially one employed to show tourists around places of interest:
Meaning an idea or plan put forward for consideration:
Meaning an indication or hint:
Meaning a mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something:
Meaning a thing that indicates the state or level of something:
Meaning a piece of information that may help in the resolution of a problem:
Meaning the pointed or rounded end or extremity of something slender or tapering:
Meaning a sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information:
Meaning a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome:
Meaning a game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge:
Meaning a question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning:
Meaning a person who poses; a poseur:
Meaning a confusing and difficult problem or question:
Meaning give (someone) facts or information; tell:
Meaning inform (someone) of something, typically in a formal or official manner:
Meaning of first importance; main:
Anagrams of clues
Words that rhyme with clues
lues, devalues, disvalues, eigenvalues, lvalues, misvalues, outvalues, overvalues, prevalues, revalues, salues, transvalues, undervalues, upvalues, values, Blues, blues, trueblues, flues, glues, reglues, superglues, unglues, heredolues, neurolues, slues
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