implicit

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  1. adjective Implied or understood though not directly expressed: an implicit agreement not to raise the touchy subject.
  2. adjective Contained in the nature of something though not readily apparent: "Frustration is implicit in any attempt to express the deepest self” (Patricia Hampl).
  3. adjective Having no doubts or reservations; unquestioning: implicit trust.

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  • The question she didn't ask was implicit, and he answered what he guessed she really wanted to know. —  Chapter1
  • It would be an implicit, all but an explicit acquiescence in the violation of the rights of mankind everywhere and of whatever nation or allegiance. —  WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM
  • RESULTS: For a Bayesian approach without explicit utilities we show that a utility structure is, in fact, implicit, and that it may be viewed as a weighted sum of the individual and scientific utilities. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This is what I term implicit whiteness? implicit because explicit assertions of white identity have been banned by the anti-white elites that dominate our politics and culture. —  Indymedia Euskal Herria
  • Its message to Democrats in 2008 - implicit, but screamingly so - is, don't let this happen again. —  Hecklerspray
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  1. Latin implicitus, variant of implicātus, past participle of implicāre, to entangle; see implicate.

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  1. = French implicite = Spanish implícito = Portuguese Italian implicito, from Latin implicitus, inplicitus, later past participle of implicare, inplicare, infold, involve, entangle: see implicate, v.
 

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