Dictionary Definition
imputation
Noun
1 a statement attributing something dishonest
(especially a criminal offense); "he denied the imputation"
2 the attribution to a source or cause; "the
imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not
taken seriously"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From imputatioPronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
- That which has been imputed or charged.
- Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
- A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.
- Opinion; intimation; hint.
Related terms
Translations
act of imputing
- German: Unterstellung
that which has been imputed
- German: Unterstellung
References
Extensive Definition
Imputation can refer to:
- Dividend imputation, tax credits attached to company dividends
- Imputation (economics)
- Imputation (game theory)
- Imputation (law)
- Imputation (religion)
- Imputation (statistics)
imputation in German: Imputation
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accounting for, accusal, accusation, accusing, adverse criticism,
allegation, allegement, animadversion, answerability, application, arraignment, arrogation, ascription, aspersion, assignation, assignment, attachment, attaint, attribution, bad notices,
bad press, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bend sinister, bill of
particulars, black eye, black mark, blame, blot, blur, brand, bringing of charges,
bringing to book, broad arrow, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, challenge, champain, charge, complaint, connection with,
count, credit, criticism, delation, denouncement, denunciation, derivation
from, disparagement, etiology, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, honor, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness,
hypercriticism,
impeachment,
implication,
indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, knock, lawsuit, laying of charges, mark
of Cain, nagging,
niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, onus, overcriticalness,
palaetiology,
personal remark, personality, pestering, pettifogging, pillorying, placement, plaint, point champain, priggishness, prosecution, quibble, quibbling, rap, reference to, reflection, reprimand, reproach, reproachfulness,
responsibility,
saddling, slam, slur, sly suggestion, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stricture, suggestion, suit, swipe, taint, taking exception, tarnish, taxing, trichoschistism, true
bill, uncomplimentary remark, unspoken accusation, veiled
accusation, whispering campaign