Implicit

Definition: Implicit

Implicit

Adjective

1. Implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something; "an implicit agreement not to raise the subject"; "there was implicit criticism in his voice"; "anger was implicit in the argument"; "the oak is implicit in the acorn".

2. Being without doubt or reserve; "implicit trust".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "implicit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Etymology: Implicit \Im*plic"it\, adjective. [Latin expression implicitus, past participle of implicare to entwine, entangle, attach closely: compare to the French expression implicite. See Implicate.]. (references)

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Implicit

Belief

Give one credit for; confide in, believe in, put one's trust in; place in, repose in, implicit confidence in; take one's word for, at one's word; place reliance on, rely upon, swear by, regard to.

Firm belief, implicit belief, settled belief, fixed rooted deep-rooted belief, staunch belief, unshaken belief, steadfast belief, inveterate belief, calm belief, sober belief, dispassionate belief, impartial belief, well-founded belief, firm opinion, implicit opinion, settled opinion, fixed rooted deep-rooted opinion, staunch opinion, unshaken opinion, steadfast opinion, inveterate opinion, calm opinion, sober opinion, dispassionate opinion, impartial opinion, well-founded opinion; uberrima fides.

Latency Implication

Indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication; implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic; understood, underhand, underground; delitescent, concealed.

Crosswords: Implicit

Romanian (constructive, implicit, implicitly), Swedish (implicit).

Books

• Attention and Implicit Learning (Advances in Consciousness Research, V. 48) (reference)

• Implicit Learning and Consciousness: An Empirical, Philosophical, and Computational Consensus in the Making (Frontiers of Cognitive Science) (reference)

• Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology (reference)

• Implicit Parallel Programming in Ph (reference)

• Implicit Psychology: An Introduction to Social Cognition (reference)

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Periodicals

• Implicit Religion (reference)

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In his strong and implicit faith he included all who held any function in the state, from the prime minister to the constable

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Health

Implicit in any contagious illness is an infectious cause for the disease. (references)

It is implicit that only surgeons capable of performing open cholecystectomy and biliary surgery should perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy. (references)

Through this research, NIAAA and the researchers it supports make an implicit promise--that alcohol research will yield practical applications that will help those who suffer as a result of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. (references)

Business

COFETEL claims that in an implicit way it is indeed regulated. (references)

The journalists did not allege detention or mistreatment, but understood an implicit, potential threat to their ability to report. (references)

Media observers have privately alleged that the Government delays issuance of broadcast licenses as an implicit control over broadcasters. (references)

Civil Liberties

Singapore

Occasional government references during controversies to speech that it considers "out-of-bounds" are understood to be implicit threats to invoke the ISA; however, these limits are not codified, and journalists and others generally believe that these limitations have shifted towards greater tolerance in recent years. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

Those transactions are based on an implicit exchange rate about 15-20% over the black market exchange rate. (references)

Pakistan

This implicit pro-foreign investment consensus among recent governments makes nationalization or expropriations an extremely unlikely course in the foreseeable future. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

The right to strike, although implicit in the constitution, is seldom exercised. (references)

COLOMBIA

For example, foreign investors must be actively engaged in television operation in their home country and their investments must involve an implicit transfer of technology. (references)

Trade

Guatemala

Independent audits are useful indicators of value or risk implicit in bank's portfolios. (references)

Worker Rights

Central African Republic

One of the cases reportedly involved the implicit cooperation of government authorities. (references)

Australia

Legislation that went into force in 1994 legalized what had always been an implicit right to strike. (references)

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Expressions using "implicit": implicit confidence ♦ implicit cost ♦ implicit faith ♦ Implicit function ♦ implicit genitive ♦ implicit in ♦ implicit interest ♦ implicit meaning ♦ implicit obedience ♦ implicit parallelism ♦ implicit rent ♦ implicit type conversion. Additional references.

Beginning with "implicit": implicit-cost elements, implicit-versus-explicit.

Ending with "implicit": one-implicit, two-implicit.

Albanian

i patundur (deep-seated, flat-footed, immovable, inexorable, resolute, staunch, steadfast, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering), i padyshimtë (absolute, certain, decided, distinct, doubtless, indisputable, indubitable, positive, questionless, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unmistakable, unquestionable, unquestioning, unsuspected, unsuspicious), i nënkuptuar (implied, tacit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كامن في, ‏كامن (concealed, hidden, inherent, latent, potential), ‏مفهوم ضمنا (implied, tacit), ‏تام (blank, complete, crass, entire, every, flat, gone, integral, outright, perfect, perfected, performed, plenary, pure, rank, regular, round, sound, thorough, thoroughgoing, unconditional, unequivocal, unqualified, utter, whole), ‏ضمني (implied, tacit, underlying). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скрит (cagey, cagy, clandestine, close, covert, delitescent, dormant, furtive, hidden, implied, insidious, latent, occult, potential, private, privy, recondite, secret, sneaking, snug, ulterior, underlying), косвен (circuitous, circumstantial, collateral, implied, indirect, mediate, oblique, vicarious), който се подразбира (constructive, implicate, implied, inferential), ням (dumb, inarticulate, mute, silent, speechless, still, voiceless), абсолютен (absolute, irrelative, perfect, plenary, plenipotentiary, profound, rank, sheer, sovereign, unconditioned, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, veriest), безрезервен (outright, whole-footed, whole-hog), пълен (absolute, alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog). (various references)

Chinese 

含蓄 (implicitness). (various references)

Czech

implicitní (implied), slepý (blank, blind, unquestioning), bezpodmíneèný (unconditional, unconditioned, unqualified, unquestioning), absolutní (absolute, blank, clear, complete, dead, flat, perfect, plenary, positive, strict, uncompromising, undiluted, undivided, unmitigated). (various references)

Danish

indbefattet, implicit, underforstået. (various references)

Dutch

impliciet. (various references)

Farsi 

مفهوم (Concept, Context, Effect, Hang, Implication, Intelligible, Intention, Moral, Purporst, Sense, Significance, Sound, Substance, Tacit), مطلق (Absolute, Abstract, Arbitrary, Autocratic, Downright, Free, Positive, Sheer, Slick, Stark, Total, Unconditional, Unrestrained, Utter), مجازی (Allegorical, Figurative, Virtual), تلویحافهمانده شده , التزامی , اشاره شده , بی شرط (Categorical). (various references)

Finnish

sokea (blind). (various references)

French

implicite (implied). (various references)

German

implizit (implicitly). (various references)

Greek 

υπονοούμενος (implied). (various references)

Hebrew 

משתמע, מרומז (hinted, implied, suggested, tacit), ברור (certain, clarification, clarity, clear, clearing, consideration, evident, evidently, explanation, manifest, obvious, obviously, patent, plain, selection, sharp, straightforward). (various references)

Hungarian

hallgatólagos (connivance, implied, tacit, unspoken), beleértett (implied, inclusive), fenntartás nélküli. (various references)

Indonesian

selengkapnya (in its entirety, properly complete). (various references)

Italian

implicito (implied, tacit), completo (absolute, all, all out, all round, arrant, blank, clear, complete, dead, entire, full, full up, inclusive, integral, intimate, out and out, outfit, outright, overall, perfect, round, set, sound, stark, suit, thorough, total, totally, unabridged, utter, whole), assoluto (absolute, all-time, clear, damned, downright, perfect, profound, sheer, stark, sweeping, unqualified, utter, very). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

暗黙 (tacit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あんもく (tacit), げんがい (excess, extra, implied, tax reduction, unexpressed). (various references)

Korean 

절대 (Absolute). (various references)

Manx

trooid as trooid (altogether, broadly speaking, implicitly, in the main, on the whole, roughly speaking, taken all round), baghtal (clear, definable, distinct, noticeable, obvious, plain). (various references)

Norwegian

underforstått, stilltiende. (various references)

Pig Latin

implicitay.(various references)

Portuguese

irrestrito (unbounded, unlimited, unrestricted), impl�cito (implicate), implícito (constructive, tacit, understood), t�cito, subentendido (tacit), absoluto (absolute, outright, sheer, total, unconditional, unmitigated, utter). (various references)

Romanian

implicit (constructive, implicitly), virtual (virtual, virtually), latent (hidden, latent, latently), exprimat. (various references)

Russian 

безоговорочный (unconditional, unqualified), полный (absolute, abysmal, all out, complete, corpulent, crowded, entire, exhaustive, floor-to-floor, flush, fraught, fubsy, full, full-bodied, full-length, in flesh, in the flesh, integrate, out and out, outright, overall, plenary, plug-to-plug, plum, portly, rotund, round, seamless, teetotal, thorough, total, unabbreviated, unabridged, uncut, utter), подразумевающийся, подразумеваемый (implied, tacit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

implicitan, zapleten, obuhvaćen (implied). (various references)

Spanish

implícito (constructive, implied). (various references)

Swedish

underförstådd (implied, tacit). (various references)

Turkish

itirazsız (unargued), ima edilen (implied), tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), kesin (absolute, accurate, assertive, categorical, certain, cheese it, clean-cut, clear-cut, conclusive, decided, decisive, declared, definite, definitive, determined, dogmatic, downright, exact, express, extreme, final, firm, flat, frozen, indisputable, indubitable, irreversible, irrevocable, mathematical, ocular, outright, peremptory, point blank, pointed, precise, pronounced, rigid, rigorous, round, safe, scientific, specific, spot-on, Square, stark, sure, sure as death, unambiguous, uncompromising, undoubted, unquestionable, unquestioned, unquestioning, utter), üstü kapalı (allusive, by implication, insinuating, roofed-in, sous-entendu). (various references)

Ukrainian

що мається на увазі (implied), безумовний (absolute, categorical, unconditional, unconditioned, unquestioning). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngấm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "implicit": implicitly, implicitness, implicitnesses. (additional references)

Words containing "implicit": simplicities, simplicity. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Implicit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imlicit, implicat, implicite, implicitr, implict, impluvia, imprimit, inplicit. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: clipt, licit, limit.

-4 letters: clip, clit, impi, limp, milt, pili, tipi.

-5 letters: imp, lip, lit, mil, pic, pit, tic, til, tip.

+1 letter: impolitic.

+2 letters: implicitly, simplicity, simplistic.

+3 letters: implicating, implication, implicative, impolitical, impoliticly.

+4 letters: complicities, implications, implicitness, multiplicity, municipality, pictorialism, simplicities.

+5 letters: amplification, compatibility, impeccability, imperialistic, implacability, implicatively, impolitically, pictorialisms, semipolitical.