Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- By implication; virtually.
- Trustfully; without question, doubt, or hesitation.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence.
- adv. By implication; impliedly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. without ever expressing so clearly
- adv. without doubting or questioning
Etymologies
- implicit + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“McLaughlin, the court ruled the phrase "implicitly advocates" should no longer apply to the definition of political advertising, and that only "expressly advocates" should apply.”
“The Hebrew term implicitly translated by the Greek word Logos is Davar.”
“During their time together, she had told him of the Jacobite Rising's ultimate failure, and he trusts her word implicitly.”
“In starting this blog (and joining up with other literary blogs in implicitly attempting to create a "broad infrastructure" of serious literary discussion), I was making a judgment that the blog post could come to approximate (in a perhaps more condensed form) if not replace the critical essay -- the available forums for which have long been dwindling in number -- as the vehicle for "literary criticism.”
“Nevertheless, the manly competition among heavies, even if kept within implicitly defined limits, clearly exacted a cost as well.”
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
“Obama's representatives also defend their use of the word "confused" to describe McCain's foreign policy positions against a reporter's charge that the word implicitly connotes an attack on McCain's age, noting that McCain was confused on foreign policy issues when he was younger and that older senators than McCain do not show such confusion.”
“Somehow the idea that some random person would have something insightful to say on an item that I might be interested in implicitly presumes a level of commonality in interests and tastes.”
“Does the phrase implicitly accuse us of lacking patriotism?”
“The terms implicitly included the measure regarding the Church, which was now part of the Constitution, and which a large majority of the bishops had rejected, but Rome had not.”
“This function is usually called implicitly when an Token = {Tag, Line} | {Tag, Line, term ()}”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘implicitly’.
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PHIL - vocabulary of thinking
philosophy, Socratic, dialogue, philosopher, Athenian, philosophical, politic, Greek, method, death, ancient, believe and 243 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Opethead's list
All Words
deplore, immense, ominouse, dilapidated, dunghill, admonitary, procuring, legilimens, mediocre, implicitly, beseechingly, imperiously and 170 more...
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List.001
New word list
imperative, republic, subtle, Androgynous, licentious, auspices, avengeance, cabal, sibilant, Entropy, caduceus, ludicrous, and 170 more...
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