implicitly

[im-plis-it-lee]

adverb

1. without actually saying so; in a way that does not use words.

   Consumers buying the company’s products are implicitly accepting its practices.

2. without question or reservation; absolutely.

   I trusted her implicitly and listened intently to everything she said.

3. 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 Word Forms

• unimplicitly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of implicitly¹

implicit ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Our media framed his victory as an “underdog success,” implicitly contrasting it with Korea’s rigid two-party system, where far-left candidates rarely stand a chance.

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That's a delicate balance to strike, especially when so many Labour MPs are eager to understand the extent to which Sir Keir himself will have been aware of or implicitly encouraged last night's briefings.

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The Combat Antisemitism Movement also suspended Heritage’s membership in the task force, noting in a formal letter, “Your speech implicitly suggested … the Holocaust is an immutable historical event. It is worthy of study, not debate.”

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At Cheyenne River, they claimed that a 1905 act of Congress, which made a portion of the reservation eligible for public homestead entry, had implicitly “diminished” the reservation.

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Rodgers did not say this implicitly but people took from his comments that those arrivals were not sanctioned by him.

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Related Words

• essentially