Impute
verb
To say or suggest that someone is responsible for something, usually something bad.
He imputed the company's failure to the decisions of the managing director.
Often appears as...
- impute blame
- impute fault
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
verb
In accounting and finance, to assign a value to something by inference from the value of the products or processes to which it contributes.
The finance team imputed a monetary value to the free services provided by the company to their clients.
Often appears as...
- impute a value
- impute income
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To say or suggest that someone is responsible for something, usually something bad.
He imputed the company's failure to the decisions of the managing director.
Often appears as...
- impute blame
- impute fault
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
verb
In accounting and finance, to assign a value to something by inference from the value of the products or processes to which it contributes.
The finance team imputed a monetary value to the free services provided by the company to their clients.
Often appears as...
- impute a value
- impute income
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Impute often implies blame or negative association toward a person or group.
Critics imputed the scandal to the senator's lack of oversight.
Pro Tip 2/3Suggesting Without Proof
Impute suggests an opinion without needing proved evidence, sometimes unfairly.
Bloggers shouldn't impute motives to someone without any factual basis.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Directly Stated
To impute something means it's not explicitly stated but hinted or insinuated.
The article imputed corruption, though it never mentioned it by name.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Impute often implies blame or negative association toward a person or group.
Critics imputed the scandal to the senator's lack of oversight.
Pro Tip 2/3Suggesting Without Proof
Impute suggests an opinion without needing proved evidence, sometimes unfairly.
Bloggers shouldn't impute motives to someone without any factual basis.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Directly Stated
To impute something means it's not explicitly stated but hinted or insinuated.
The article imputed corruption, though it never mentioned it by name.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Impute often implies blame or negative association toward a person or group.
Critics imputed the scandal to the senator's lack of oversight.
Pro Tip 2/3Suggesting Without Proof
Impute suggests an opinion without needing proved evidence, sometimes unfairly.
Bloggers shouldn't impute motives to someone without any factual basis.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Directly Stated
To impute something means it's not explicitly stated but hinted or insinuated.
The article imputed corruption, though it never mentioned it by name.
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How judges can show...
when you've realized there's a literacy issue. And the good thing about respect is that it's contagious. People see you being respectful to other folks and they impute that respect to themselves. You see, that's what the transgender prostitute was telling me. I'm judging you just as much as you think you may be judging me.
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How judges can show...
when you've realized there's a literacy issue. And the good thing about respect is that it's contagious. People see you being respectful to other folks and they impute that respect to themselves. You see, that's what the transgender prostitute was telling me. I'm judging you just as much as you think you may be judging me.
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Quote examples
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Journalist
When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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William Godwin
English Writer
Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.
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Richard Wagner
German Composer
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
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Jim Garrison
American Public Servant
This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.
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Jonathan Swift
Irish Writer
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Quote examples
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Journalist
When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
Quote examples
William Godwin
English Writer
Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.
Quote examples
Richard Wagner
German Composer
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
Quote examples
Jim Garrison
American Public Servant
This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.
Quote examples
Jonathan Swift
Irish Writer
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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