explicit vs implicit
Definitions
adjective
- precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication
- in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term
Examples
All forms of classical orthodoxy either explicitly reject or reject in principle kenotic theology.
As the author repeatedly points out, the pornographic material he seized wasn't simply more explicit than 18-certificate films or top-shelf magazines.
The Ahmadiyah were explicitly "warned and ordered" that "as long as they consider themselves to hold to Islam, to discontinue the promulgation of interpretations and activities that are deviant from the principal teachings of Islam, that is to say the promulgation of beliefs that recognize a prophet with all his teachings who comes after the Prophet Muhammad SAW.
Definitions
adjective
- being without doubt or reserve
- implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something
Examples
The impression of warmth and comfort and beauty predominated, though he was unable to analyze it; while the simplicity delighted him -- expensive simplicity, he decided, and most of it leftovers from the time her father went broke and died.
No one can underestimate the difficulties implicit in achieving a negotiated settlement.
The story is of the utmost simplicity: after a shipwreck, a sailor is lost at sea.
