implicit

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 11.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Suggested indirectly, without being directly expressed; Implied.

   Poets often leave behind an implicit message within their words.

2. adjective Contained in the essential nature of something but not openly shown.
3. adjective Having no reservations or doubts; unquestioning or unconditional; usually said of faith or trust.
4. adjective entangled, twisted together.

Similar words

implied understood inherent tacit unquestioning silent absolute unspoken unstated unvoiced

Often followed by

in and assumption or faith obedience confidence memory assumptions

Word family

implicitly implicitness implicitnesses