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

The document implicitly acknowledges that data held on Horizon's servers at Fujitsu's headquarters could fail to match the transactions sub-postmasters had carried out at their branches.

From BBC

Yet, what his post alludes to implicitly is that the concept of “middle-class” has evolved over the last few decades, and not in a good direction.

From Los Angeles Times

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.”

From Salon

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.

From Salon

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

From BBC

Related Words

• essentially