implicit
Americanadjective
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implied, rather than expressly stated.
implicit agreement.
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unquestioning or unreserved; unconditional: implicit obedience;
implicit trust;
implicit obedience;
implicit confidence.
- Synonyms:
- total, complete, absolute, unqualified
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potentially contained (usually followed byin ).
to bring out the drama implicit in the occasion.
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Mathematics. (of a function) having the dependent variable not explicitly expressed in terms of the independent variables, as x 2 + y 2 = 1.
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Obsolete. entangled.
adjective
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not explicit; implied; indirect
there was implicit criticism in his voice
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absolute and unreserved; unquestioning
you have implicit trust in him
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contained or inherent
to bring out the anger implicit in the argument
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maths (of a function) having an equation of the form f( x,y ) = 0, in which y cannot be directly expressed in terms of x, as in xy + x ² + y ³ x ² = 0 Compare explicit 1
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obsolete intertwined
Other Word Forms
- implicitly adverb
- implicitness noun
- implicity noun
Etymology
Origin of implicit
First recorded in 1590–1600; from Latin implicitus “involved, obscure,” variant past participle of implicāre; implicate, -ite 2
Example Sentences
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The implicit assumption is that earnings are driven primarily by procurement wins and geopolitical events.
From MarketWatch
And it carried an implicit warning: If America ever ceases to be as Hilda—godly, uncompromising, moral, dutiful and good—the moss-covered lassitude of Hawthorne’s Rome awaits us too.
Like every other detail here, that implicit complaint is dusty and ossified, and Mr. Williamson’s formerly wised-up dialogue has been supplanted by a grinding earnestness, with everyone constantly asking about one another’s feelings.
Prohibition currently functions as an implicit tax of staggering size.
“The problem with an oval table is there’s an implicit hierarchy between people sitting at the center and people sitting at the edges,” said Knot.
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