implicitly

American  

[im-plis-it-lee] / ɪmˈplɪs ɪt li /

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.

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Other Word Forms

• unimplicitly adverb

Etymology

Origin of implicitly

implicit ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

"So this disinformation is either explicitly or implicitly a part of that larger campaign," he said.

From Barron's

“All these tests and tubes,” said Tante Jans, who believed in them implicitly, “what do they really prove?”

From Literature

Her character arc implicitly concedes this when she outgrows some of her early ways in the third act.

From The Wall Street Journal

In addressing these strands of the war, the prime minister - who has often seemed more comfortable handling foreign policy than domestic politics - was implicitly defending his handling of the war so far.

From BBC

“They agree implicitly on what they don’t want, but much less on what comes next.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• essentially