Difference between Implicate and Entail

What is the difference between Implicate and Entail?

Implicate as a verb is to connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something. while Entail as a verb is to imply or require.

Implicate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something. To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment. To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.

Entail

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To imply or require.To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.To appoint hereditary possessor.To cut or carve in a ornamental way.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: That which is entailed. Hence:Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

We hope you now know whether to use Implicate or Entail in your sentence.

Also read

Popular Articles