implicit
implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.
unquestioning or unreserved; unconditional: 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. 5).
Obsolete. entangled.
Origin of implicit
1Other words for implicit
Other words from implicit
- im·plic·it·ly, adverb
- im·plic·it·ness, im·plic·i·ty, noun
Words that may be confused with implicit
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How to use implicit in a sentence
Although Bitcoin has long been regarded with wariness by traditional investors, it has also received an implicit blessing this year from august names like Harvard University and hedge fund billionaire John Tudor Jones.
There are real questions as to how these implicit biases influenced hiring, advancement, and access to capital at their firms.
The implicit promise is the passage of those bills will solve the problems they’re meant to address.
Our planning assumptions are often implicit, which makes it hard to examine or challenge them.
So Kembhavi and his colleagues Jaemin Cho, Jiasen Lu, and Hannaneh Hajishirzi decided to see if they could teach a model all this implicit visual knowledge by tweaking their approach to masking.
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Can it be that Christianity, in which she so implicity believes, has anything to do with this perfect peace?
The Actress' Daughter | May Agnes FlemingSome believed in it so implicity that they saw in every experiment a hundred things which they did not see.
Vikram and the Vampire | Richard F. BurtonThe signs never fail, yet there is such a thing as trusting them too implicity.
Bizarre | Lawton MackallTo express it with almost childish implicity, their plays are not "exciting."
Modernities | Horace Barnett SamuelHe originated them in the varied and complicated transactions of a large business in which he was trusted implicity.
Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys | Various
British Dictionary definitions for implicit
/ (ɪmˈplɪsɪt) /
not explicit; implied; indirect: there was implicit criticism in his voice
absolute and unreserved; unquestioning: you have implicit trust in him
(when postpositive, foll by in) contained or inherent: to bring out the anger implicit in the argument
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 (def. 4)
obsolete intertwined
Origin of implicit
1Derived forms of implicit
- implicitly, adverb
- implicitness or implicity, noun
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