implicit.

1. Conveyed indirectly or assumed without being directly expressed.

2. Complete or unquestioning, especially of trust or obedience.

3. Expressed by a relation that does not directly isolate a specified dependent variable.

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Words that belong together

• implicit assumption
• implicit message

On the page

The argument relied on an implicit assumption.

She identified an implicit promise in the wording.

The message remained implicit.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic. Forms: More implicit; most implicit where gradable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.