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implicitly
[ im-plis-it-lee ]
adverb
- without actually saying so; in a way that does not use words:
Consumers buying the company’s products are implicitly accepting its practices.
- without question or reservation; absolutely:
I trusted her implicitly and listened intently to everything she said.
- as an inherent but hidden part of the way things are; latently:
The threat of violence against women is implicitly present all around us, everywhere.
Other Words From
- un·im·plic·it·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of implicitly1
Example Sentences
No man — no matter how Darrenish he might be — “demands to see the manager,” because that implicitly acknowledges the authority of another.
Euler implicitly assumed his polyhedra were convex, meaning a line segment joining any two points stayed completely within the polyhedron.
We wanted to look at why our society implicitly believes maps and how that trust has been exploited.
In short, candidates and LGBTQ rights were both on the ballot in the 2020 election, either explicitly or implicitly.
Some of them, NBC News reported, were organized by figures who implicitly or explicitly support QAnon, and some marchers brought signs with QAnon slogans.
In tackling this issue, Watson is, whether she knows it or not, also implicitly taking on a broader issue.
Because programs like TFA implicitly reveal the problem with the main core of U.S. teacher preparation.
“To us, when church officials talk about forgiveness, they implicitly imply that the crisis is over,” said Clohessy.
A Kansas that enshrines discrimination against gays is, implicitly, a Kansas that has declared its contempt for their lives.
This implicitly rebukes North Carolina as it moves to cut back on early balloting as part of its wildly controversial plan.
She withdrew entirely from society and devoted herself to practicing, following his directions implicitly.
These instructions were obeyed implicitly, and soon the camp was buried in apparent slumber.
It is a serious mark of a Church's imperfection for it to recognise only implicitly or virtually its covenant obligations.
Father, I will obey you implicitly if you can name a reasonable objection to the man I love.
Under certain conditions I would trust him with my life as implicitly as I would trust any white man.
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