indicate, bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point to, allude to; drive at; involve &c. (latency) 526; declare &c. (affirm) 535.
     understand by &c. (interpret) 522. 
     Adj. meaning &c. v.; expressive, suggestive, allusive; significant,
significative[obs3], significatory[obs3]; pithy; full of meaning, pregnant with meaning.
     declaratory &c. 535; intelligible &c. 518; literal; synonymous;
tantamount &c. (equivalent) 27; implied &c. (latent) 526; explicit &c. 525. 
     Adv. to that effect; that is to say &c. (being interpreted) 522.

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     #517. [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness. —­ N. meaninglessness,
unmeaningness &c. adj[obs3].; scrabble.
     empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil[Lat]; “a tale told by
an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”; “sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.”
     nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words,
hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin[obs3], platitude, niaiserie[obs3]; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae[Lat]; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock [U.S.]; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity &c. 497; vagueness &c. (unintelligibility) 519.
     [routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp.
legal] boilerplate. 
     V. mean nothing; be unmeaning &c. adj.; twaddle, quibble, scrabble. 
     Adj. unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense &c.
516.
     inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant &c. 516;
insignificant.
     trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.
     unmeant, not expressed; tacit &c. (latent) 526.
     inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.

     #518.  Intelligibility. —­ N. intelligibility; clearness, explicitness
&c. adj.; lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain speaking &c. (manifestation) 525; precision &c. 494; gr/phonanta synetoisy/gr[Grk][Grk]; a word to the wise. 
     V. be intelligible &c. adj.; speak for itself, speak volumes; tell its
own tale, lie on the surface.
     render intelligible &c. adj.; popularize, simplify, clear up;
elucidate &c. (explain) 522.
     understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect,
master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one’s way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding. 
     Adj. intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid;
perspicuous, transpicuous[obs3]; luminous, transparent.
     easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible
to the meanest capacity, popularized.
     plain, distinct, explicit; positive; definite &c. (precise) 494.