THESAURUS
lurking
abeyant, about to be, already in sight, approaching, at hand, between the lines, brewing, close, close at hand, coming, covert, cryptic, delitescent, doggo, dormant, esoteric, forthcoming, furtive, future, gathering, going to happen, hibernating, hidden, hidden out, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in ambush, in danger imminent, in hiding, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in the wings, in view, instant, latent, looming, lowering, menacing, muffled, mystic, near, near at hand, nearing, obfuscated, obscured, occult, on the horizon, on tiptoe, overhanging, possible, potential, preparing, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, quiescent, skulking, sleeping, sneaking, stealing, stealthy, submerged, surreptitious, that will be, threatening, to come, under cover, under the surface, underlying, unmanifested, upcoming, veiled, virtual, waiting, waiting concealed
ROGET THESAURUS
lurking
Implication
N
latency, implication, latency, inexpression, hidden meaning, occult meaning, occultness, mystery, cabala, anagoge, silence, concealment, more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear, Delphic oracle, le dessous des cartes, undercurrent, implication, logical implication, logical consequence, entailment, allusion, insinuation, innuendo, adumbration, something rotten in the state of Denmark, snake in the grass, secret, darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility, latent,
lurking, secret, occult, implied, dormant, abeyant, unapparent, unknown, unseen, in the background, invisible, indiscoverable, dark, impenetrable, unspied, unsuspected, unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold &c, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed, unexpressed, not expressed, tacit, undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered, untracked, unexplored, uninvented, indirect, crooked, inferential, by inference, by implication, implicit, constructive, allusive, covert, muffled, steganographic, understood, underhand, underground, delitescent, concealed, by a side wind, sub silentio, in the background, behind the scenes, behind one's back, on the tip of one's tongue, secretly, between the lines, thereby hangs a tale, tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus, where there's smoke, there's fire.
