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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

if you will en · ADV

Meanings

  1. Please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.
    • But imagine, if you will, a world where these logistical problems were solved.
  2. So to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard.
    • These are "partial artifacts", if you will: the imaging process has merely amplified flaws that were already present in the original.
    • Today's blackenization, if you will, of the prisons only exacerbates racist proclivities in nonblack Americans to associate black people with wrong. 2001, Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 28:
  3. Used in conceding a description or choice of terms.
    • He wasn't a very honest person; a liar, if you will.

Coordinates

you said it · in a way · as it were · to an extent

Synonyms

if you like (all senses)

Translations (13)

pl że tak powiem (conceding a description) · es por así decirlo (conceding a description) · de wenn Sie so wollen (conceding a description) · it per così dire (conceding a description) · de sozusagen (conceding a description) · da om du vil (conceding a description) · es mejor dicho (conceding a description) · de wenn du so willst (conceding a description) · la si vis (conceding a description) · ru если угодно (conceding a description) · sh ако ћемо право (conceding a description) · pt por assim dizer (conceding a description) · da om man vil (conceding a description)