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implicitly

adverbC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,298 of 15,258leans written

Implicitly means without being stated, or completely and without question. Implicitly agreed, trust him implicitly, implicitly acknowledged.

The two senses are far apart: an implicit agreement was never spoken, while trusting somebody implicitly means holding nothing back. The second is the commoner in speech and the first in writing.

Definitions of implicitly

  1. 1adverbimplicitlyWithout being stated, or completely and without question.C1

    “By staying silent, he implicitly accepted the blame.”

implicitly is a manner.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    implicitus

  2. Middle French

    implicite

  3. English

    implicit

  4. English, today

    implicitly

Built from

  • implico · Latin — to infold, involve, entangle

From implicit + -ly. implicit comes from Middle French implicite, from Latin implicitus, past participle of implico (“to infold, involve, entangle”); see implicate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

implicitly in the wild

  • When degrees of freedom is used instead of dimension, this usually means that the manifold or variety that models the system is only implicitly defined.

    Degrees of freedom

  • Individual bits are implicitly or explicitly read or written by the machine code instructions executing on the processor.

    Status register

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the implico family

implyimplicatedimplicate

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