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implicitly

[ im-plis-it-lee ]

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adverb

without actually saying so; in a way that does not use words:
Consumers buying the company’s products are implicitly accepting its practices.
without question or reservation; absolutely:
I trusted her implicitly and listened intently to everything she said.
as an inherent but hidden part of the way things are; latently:
The threat of violence against women is implicitly present all around us, everywhere.

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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of implicitly¹

implicit ( def ) + -ly

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By remaining silent, we implicitly embrace rising fascist politics.

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As I observed at the outset, I understand Leslie’s impulses implicitly.

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The well-meaning messengers posing this query mean to protect fragile work addressing issues of race, but they implicitly send another message.

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Instead, they suggest, “Trump tends to heavily rely upon thinly veiled speech codes known as ’dog whistles’ to implicitly refer to them.

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He also argues that deep-sea mining would reduce the need for mining on land: "Anyone that doesn't want to do deep-sea mining is implicitly saying we need to do more land-based mining."

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