Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Implied or understood though not directly expressed.
- adjective Contained in the nature of something though not readily apparent.
- adjective Having no doubts or reservations; unquestioning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Infolded; entangled.
- Complicated; involved; puzzling.
- Implied; resting on implication or inference; that may or should be understood, though not directly expressed; tacitly included.
- Involved in or resulting from perfect confidence in or deference to some authority or witness; hence, submissive; unquestioning; blind: as, implicit faith; implicit assent; implicit obedience.
- Submissively yielding; unquestioningly obedient; trusting confidently or blindly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved.
- adjective Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied.
- adjective Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete
- adjective (Math.) See under
Function .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Implied indirectly , without beingdirectly expressed - adjective
Contained in theessential nature of something but notopenly shown - adjective Having no
reservations ordoubts ;unquestioning orunconditional ; usually said offaith ortrust . - adjective obsolete
entangled , twisted together.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being without doubt or reserve
- adjective implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This is what I term implicit whiteness? implicit because explicit assertions of white identity have been banned by the anti-white elites that dominate our politics and culture.
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The president rejected what he described as the implicit suggestion from some quarters that the Public Protector was not up to this task.
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Paralleling this, I observe significant reductions in implicit bias (0.20 to 0.57 standard deviations) among Hindu children.
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But I can't believe anymore has suggested that he literally - what's not implicit is that ...
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"We aided and abetted it in implicit ways by not demanding more earlier."
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But I can't believe anymore has suggested that he literally - what's not implicit is that ...
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“Even though implicitly acquired knowledge tends to remain implicit, and explicitly acquired knowledge tends to remain explicit, explicitly learned knowledge can become implicit in the sense that learners can lose awareness of its structures over time, and learners can become aware of the structures of implicit knowledge when attempting to access it, for example for applying it to a new context or conveying it verbally to somebody else.”
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Similarly the idea of the "American family" which was hegemonic for much of the last century and which serves as the basis for some political arguments is predicated on certain implicit ideas about who is an american, about what proper relationships look like, and about the place of the family within society, etc. Maddy
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"We aided and abetted it in implicit ways by not demanding more earlier."
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Rather, what was implicit is changed by explicating it.
agustinolvera commented on the word implicit
Eclispe by Stephenie Meyer Page 55
-"Charlie flinched at the threat implicit in my question."
November 1, 2010