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implicitly

[im-plis-it]

adjective

implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.

unquestioning or unreserved; absolute: implicit trust; implicit obedience; implicit confidence.

potentially contained (usually followed by in): to bring out the drama implicit in the occasion.

Mathematics. (of a function) having the dependent variable not explicitly expressed in terms of the independent variables, as x² + y² = 1. Compare explicit (def. 6).

Obsolete. entangled.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin implicitus involved, obscure, variant past participle of implicāre. See implicate, -ite²

Related forms

im·plic·it·ly, adverb

im·plic·it·ness, im·plic·i·ty, noun

un·im·plic·it·ly, adverb

Can be confused: explicit, implicit, implied.

Synonyms
2. inherent, complete, total.

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All the canvases here play with the picture plane, have implicitly geometric compositions or refer to art making.

It also implicitly and substantially underestimates the level of public resources required.

Derivatives are extraordinarily useful-as well as complex, dangerous if misused and implicitly subsidised.

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All the canvases here play with the picture plane, have implicitly geometric compositions or refer to art making.

It also implicitly and substantially underestimates the level of public resources required.

Derivatives are extraordinarily useful-as well as complex, dangerous if misused and implicitly subsidised.

It is not itself dependent upon language since it implicitly delineates the meaning inherent in all languages.

The incentives tend to be stacked against negativity, and in some cases implicitly discourage it.

His prior acceptance of your rent checks can be used as evidence that he has implicitly recognized you as a tenant.

Do not implicitly criticize our sector for doing right by our students.

And he appeared implicitly to accept that those inflows may be smaller in future.

Emoticons help users implicitly express tone and meaning, allowing for more nuanced text-based conversations.

Consequently, the method implicitly defines as environment only the difference within each twin pair.

The two sides have implicitly acknowledged this risk by taking the unusual step of waiving any breakup fee.

The question of whether online learning is worthy of college credit has been implicitly settled.

Nonetheless its conclusions implicitly raise awkward questions about the bank's new leaders.

Both science and religion implicitly make this claim.

DeVecchio cautions that the technology should not be trusted implicitly.

Both professors may scrutinize a research paper with these different costs of error implicitly in mind.

Smith implicitly negated the regard for expertise that undergirds both scientific and humanistic knowledge.

America has implicitly backed the biggest banks and much of the residential-mortgage market.

There are several candidate definitions that people explicitly or implicitly use in books, papers or blog posts on the topic.

Mental disability and drug addiction are implicitly blamed for any cases of homelessness not caused by economic distress.

Another important question has been implicitly asked in previous posts.

In this sense, art, illusions and visual science have always been implicitly linked.

They have been educated in wired schools, they have taken their first jobs implicitly understanding computer technologies.

Implicitly suggest the weaknesses of any outsider who doesn't know the deep history of the place.

Horgan also implicitly narrows the definition of war in order to dismiss the evidence.

Don't let them convince you, either explicitly or implicitly to keep silent.

It is implicitly bound to the question, whether there exist an elementary speciality called life ort not.

Many coaches implicitly or explicitly discriminate against lesbian players.

Logic and reason are implicitly functions of language.

Implicitly calling other people unpatriotic is not a way to gain favor.

It's a message that is pushed on to us, implicitly and explicitly, from everywhere.

Implicitly or explicitly, it doesn't matter, their goal is to put you in your place and get you to submit.

Seventy-five percent of the papers either explicitly or implicitly accepted the consensus view.

Before long, the deal was implicitly amended to include murder so long as the right person was murdered.

Many of them are still implicitly guaranteed by their municipal owners.

Central banks and governments implicitly guaranteed this debt, riding to the rescue whenever a repayment crisis loomed.

Fully visible is their implicitly divided nature as commodities and redeeming concentrations of human striving and thought.

Critics said it was ripe for abuse, implicitly discriminatory and probably.

Because they are implicitly replying to two criticisms of descriptivism.

Linguistic conventions are implicitly or explicitly agreed on regularities in behavior shared by a linguistic community.

By publishing such photos, magazine editors could be seen as implicitly condoning the life style represented.

The article glossed over or implicitly ignored that.

Secondly, the author implicitly equates feelings of disgust with moral judgments, does not cite any study establishes this.

His policy thus rests implicitly on the premise that if business owners could afford to hire additional workers, they would.

The draft is implicitly critical of the party's old thinking and old solutions.

At the moment, firms with product-liability insurance are implicitly insured for their nanoparticles.

But too often these reports, providing little context, can leave an implicitly racist aftertaste.

When you quote someone in your journalism, you are implicitly relying on two kinds of trust.

They are implicitly lowlands, built of sediment settling where rivers meet the sea.

In a currency union the member countries explicitly or implicitly agree not to go the inflationary way.

Not to mention that at base all this nonsense about good vs bad calories implicitly tries to violate the laws of thermodynamics.

What's more, the letter implicitly endorses much of what administration officials have been saying about health economics.

Such sympathy also distracts from those tragedies of actual importance and implicitly undermines them.

The rest of us shrug, implicitly acknowledging a pervasive self-doubt.

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World English Dictionary

implicit (ɪmˈplɪsɪt)

—*adj* (foll by in)
1.	not explicit; implied; indirect: there was implicit criticism in his voice
2.	absolute and unreserved; unquestioning: you have implicit trust in him
3.	contained or inherent: to bring out the anger implicit in the argument
4.	maths Compare explicit (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 + x² + y³x ² = 0
5.	obsolete intertwined

[C16: from Latin implicitus, variant of implicātus interwoven; see implicate]

im'plicitly

—*adv*

im'plicitness

—n

im'plicity

—n

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Word Origin & History

implicit

1599, from L. implicitus, later variant of implicatus, pp. of implicare (see implicate).

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"In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others."

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