Dictionary

implicitly en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English implicit Middle English -ly English -ly English implicitly From implicit + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an implicit or implied manner.
   • He was punished for asking for answers implicitly during the exam.
   • I will sometimes omit the features that need to agree on the arcs, just to keep the diagrams simpler. I will also often omit many features of the head categories, such as count, mass, name, and number agreement features, again for simplicity of presentation. But keep in mind that all these agreement features are implicitly there. 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Grammar” (chapter 3), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 57:
   • tell someone implicitly
2. Without doubting or questioning.

Forms

Antonyms

explicitly

Translations (20)

es implícitamente (in an implicit or implied manner) · ca implícitament (in an implicit or implied manner) · fr implicitement (in an implicit or implied manner) · pt implicitamente (in an implicit or implied manner) · ru неявно (in an implicit or implied manner) · it implicitamente (in an implicit or implied manner) · ru беспрекосло́вно (without doubting or questioning) · uk непрямо (in an implicit or implied manner) · el σιωπηρά (in an implicit or implied manner) · pl bezwarunkowo (in an implicit or implied manner) · fi implisiittisesti (in an implicit or implied manner) · uk беззастережно (without doubting or questioning) · ru безогово́рочно (without doubting or questioning) · fi välillisesti (in an implicit or implied manner) · uk цілковито (without doubting or questioning) · uk неявно (in an implicit or implied manner) · fi ehdottomasti (in an implicit or implied manner) · el έμμεσα (in an implicit or implied manner) · fi epäsuorasti (in an implicit or implied manner) · gl implicitamente (in an implicit or implied manner)