clues

Meaning of clues

plural noun
  1. a piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime.
    police officers are still searching for clues
  2. 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
verb, 3rd person present
  1. 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:

hint

Meaning a sign or piece of information that indicates something:

indication

Meaning an object, quality, or event whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else:

sign

Meaning an indication of a situation:

signal

Meaning a hint as to what might happen in the future:

pointer

Meaning a person who shows the way to others, especially one employed to show tourists around places of interest:

guide

Meaning an idea or plan put forward for consideration:

suggestion

Meaning an indication or hint:

intimation

Meaning a mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something:

trace

Meaning a thing that indicates the state or level of something:

indicator

Meaning a piece of information that may help in the resolution of a problem:

lead

Meaning the pointed or rounded end or extremity of something slender or tapering:

tip

Meaning a sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information:

question

Meaning a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome:

problem

Meaning a game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge:

puzzle

Meaning a question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning:

riddle

Meaning a person who poses; a poseur:

poser

Meaning a confusing and difficult problem or question:

conundrum

Meaning give (someone) facts or information; tell:

inform

Meaning inform (someone) of something, typically in a formal or official manner:

notify

Meaning of first importance; main:

prime

Anagrams of clues

luces

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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