Meanings
comparative more implicitly · superlative most implicitly
- In an implicit or implied manner.
tell someone implicitly
2 more examples
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 - Without doubting or questioning.
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbwithout ever expressing so clearly
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan implícitament
- implícitamentin an implicit or implied manner
Finnish epäsuorasti, ehdottomasti
- epäsuorastiin an implicit or implied manner
- ehdottomastiin an implicit or implied manner
- välillisestiin an implicit or implied manner
- implisiittisestiin an implicit or implied manner
French implicitement
- implicitementin an implicit or implied manner
Greek έμμεσα, σιωπηρά
- έμμεσα (émmesa)in an implicit or implied manner
- σιωπηρά (siopirá)in an implicit or implied manner
Italian implicitamente
- implicitamentein an implicit or implied manner
Polish bezwarunkowo
- bezwarunkowoin an implicit or implied manner
Portuguese implicitamente
- implicitamentein an implicit or implied manner
Russian неявно, беспрекосло́вно
- неявно (nejavno)in an implicit or implied manner
- беспрекосло́вно (besprekoslóvno)without doubting or questioning
- безогово́рочно (bezogovóročno)without doubting or questioning
Spanish implícitamente
- implícitamentein an implicit or implied manner
Ukrainian неявно, непрямо
- неявно (nejavno)in an implicit or implied manner
- непрямо (neprjamo)in an implicit or implied manner
- цілковито (cilkovyto)without doubting or questioning
- беззастережно (bezzasterežno)without doubting or questioning
Cite this entry
implicitly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/implicitly
“implicitly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/implicitly. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “implicitly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/implicitly.
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