Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not explicit; indefinite.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not explicit or clear in terms or statement; not clearly stated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not explicit; not clearly stated; indefinite; vague.

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  • adjective Not explicit.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something

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Examples

  • In fact Darwin was disappointingly vague and inexplicit about the actual mechanics of speciation despite the title of his magnum opus.

    (Creation) science marches on! - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • In fact Darwin was disappointingly vague and inexplicit about the actual mechanics of speciation despite the title of his magnum opus.

    (Creation) science marches on! - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • In fact Darwin was disappointingly vague and inexplicit about the actual mechanics of speciation despite the title of his magnum opus.

    (Creation) science marches on! - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • Also grossly overlooked (or outright ignored) is the fact that the "The Surge" either indirectly or as it's inexplicit aim, catalyzed and gave cover to the accelerated ethnic cleansing of Baghdad and greater Iraq.

    TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | 2009

  • Is that like the four-fold establishing a pre-ontological understanding of being something like when Dreyfus talk about styles, and thus Dasein's understanding of being recedes into the background, remaining unarticulated and inexplicit?

    enowning enowning 2008

  • Note: If I'd been the editor, I would have bobbited off the inexplicit sex at the end.

    From the Drudge Report 2006

  • I would argue that for all the obvious parallels both explicit and inexplicit, this isn't a movie about terrorism, at least not in the sense that Gojira is a movie about atomic weapons, or that Alien is a movie about corporations' inhumanity, or that The Host is a movie about the United States.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

  • Indeed, one of Open Wide's most fascinating if inexplicit themes is the degree to which pop culture now functions as politics by other means.

    The Big Shill 2005

  • Indeed, one of Open Wide's most fascinating if inexplicit themes is the degree to which pop culture now functions as politics by other means.

    The Big Shill 2005

  • There is also an inexplicit awareness that some black leaders don't share these ideals, and stake their claims to power by preaching revenge against the whites.

    She Marvels at Post-Apartheid Life 2007

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