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UK
/ɪmplˈɪsɪt/
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[ US /ˌɪmˈpɫɪsət/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɫɪsət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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being without doubt or reserve
implicit trust -
implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something
anger was implicit in the argument
there was implicit criticism in his voice
the oak is implicit in the acorn
an implicit agreement not to raise the subject
How To Use implicit In A Sentence
- 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. Chapter XVIII
- 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.
- Hunt was also to write that he and Millais used to stand in front of the Raphael cartoons (then at Hampton Court) and judge them fearlessly, also that they condemned Raphael's Transfiguration (which they had never seen) 'for its grandiose disregard of the simplicity of truth, the pompous posturing of the Apostles, and the unspiritual attitudinising of the Saviour.' Cosa Nostra
- Yet Walter so idealised the pretty child whom he had found wandering in the rough streets, and so identified her with her innocent gratitude of that night and the simplicity and truth of its expression, that he blushed for himself as a libeller when he argued that she could ever grow proud. Dombey and Son
- We all have implicit or unconscious biases that impact our behavior. Christianity Today
- We show above that Hipparchus' and Ptolemy 's arguments are based on an implicit false premise - that one would feel the motion.
- Thus the various ritual capacities of North Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers typify the sort of interpersonal agency implicit in Melanesian personal partibility.
- A neo-Classical representation of folk music and simplicity, this small work was written in honor of Enesco and Jora on their 60th and 50th birthdays.
- Galileo was attracted by the implicit contrast between physical propositions that were demonstrated and those that were merely affirmed.