Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to insinuate
Participle: insinuated
Gerund: insinuating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | insinuate |
| you | insinuate |
| he;she;it | insinuates |
| we | insinuate |
| you | insinuate |
| they | insinuate |
Perfect
| I | have insinuated |
| you | have insinuated |
| he;she;it | has insinuated |
| we | have insinuated |
| you | have insinuated |
| they | have insinuated |
Past
| I | insinuated |
| you | insinuated |
| he;she;it | insinuated |
| we | insinuated |
| you | insinuated |
| they | insinuated |
Pluperfect
| I | had insinuated |
| you | had insinuated |
| he;she;it | had insinuated |
| we | had insinuated |
| you | had insinuated |
| they | had insinuated |
Future
| I | will insinuate |
| you | will insinuate |
| he;she;it | will insinuate |
| we | will insinuate |
| you | will insinuate |
| they | will insinuate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have insinuated |
| you | will have insinuated |
| he;she;it | will have insinuated |
| we | will have insinuated |
| you | will have insinuated |
| they | will have insinuated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | insinuate |
| you | insinuate |
| he;she;it | insinuate |
| we | insinuate |
| you | insinuate |
| they | insinuate |
Perfect
| I | have insinuated |
| you | have insinuated |
| he;she;it | have insinuated |
| we | have insinuated |
| you | have insinuated |
| they | have insinuated |
Imperfect
| I | insinuated |
| you | insinuated |
| he;she;it | insinuated |
| we | insinuated |
| you | insinuated |
| they | insinuated |
Pluperfect
| I | had insinuated |
| you | had insinuated |
| he;she;it | had insinuated |
| we | had insinuated |
| you | had insinuated |
| they | had insinuated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would insinuate |
| you | would insinuate |
| he;she;it | would insinuate |
| we | would insinuate |
| you | would insinuate |
| they | would insinuate |
Perfect
| I | would have insinuated |
| you | would have insinuated |
| he;she;it | would have insinuated |
| we | would have insinuated |
| you | would have insinuated |
| they | would have insinuated |
Imperative
| you | insinuate |
| we | Let's insinuate |
| you | insinuate |
Verbs conjugated like 'insinuate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'insinuate'
insaniate,
insensate,
insidiate,
insimulate,
insonate,
sinuate,
antiquate,
impinguate,
inactuate,
incantate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- indirect suggestion
- advert, allude, hint, imply, indicate, inkle, intimate, refer, signify, suggest
- intimate
- imply, hint, suggest, allude, connote
- instill
- inject, infuse, interpose, inculcate, introduce
Antonyms
- intimate
- conceal, cover, cloak, cloud
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1526 (implied in insinuation), from L. insinuatus, pp. of insinuare "bring in by windings and curvings, wind one's way into," from in- "in" + sinuare "to wind, bend, curve," from sinus "a curve, winding." Sense of "to introduce tortuously or indirectly" is from 1647.
2. First attested in 1529; Borrowed from Latin īnsinuātus, perfect passive participle of īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”) -ō (verb-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Sample Sentences
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She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.
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And wilt thou inſinuate what I am? and praiſe me? And ſay I am a Noble Fellow? [1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:]
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And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated houses. [1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Hollow’s Cottage”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 82:]
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‘You are quite wrong, my love, in your guess at my meaning. What I insinuated was, that my Georgiana’s little heart was growing conscious of a vacancy.’ [1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:]
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1728-1729, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
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Water will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks
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Some speakers allow the sound of r to insinuate itself between the a and s of wash [1999, Charles Harrington Estler, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, page 403:]
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All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. [1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 3, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:]
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Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts. [1693, John Dryden, “[The Dedication]”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:]
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He[…] insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham. [1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:]
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[…] he insinuated himself into the confidence of one already so forlorn—[…] [1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 306:]
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Nanny didn't so much enter places as insinuate herself; she had unconsciously taken a natural talent for liking people and developed it into an occult science. [1995, Terry Pratchett, Maskerade, page 242:]