Word Meanings - IMPLICIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope. 2. Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement. South. 3. Resting

Additional info about word: IMPLICIT

1. Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope. 2. Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement. South. 3. Resting on another; trusting in the word or authority of another, without doubt or reserve; unquestioning; complete; as, implicit confidence; implicit obedience. Back again to implicit faith I fall. Donne. Implicit function. See under Function.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPLICIT)

• Immanent
• Inherent
• innate
• subjective
• indwelling
• internal
• intrinsic
• congenital
• ingrained
• natural
• implicit
• Latent
• Invisible
• inapparent
• unobserved
• hidden
• concealed
• undeveloped
• potential
• inherent
• secret
• occult
• Potential
• Possible
• germinative
• immanent
• virtual
• Tacit
• Silent
• implied
• understood
• unexpressed
• Virtual
• constructive
• practical
• substantial
• indirect
• essential

Related words: (words related to IMPLICIT)

• INTRINSICAL
  1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• OCCULTISM
  A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett.
• OCCULT
  Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure
• IMPLIEDLY
  By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• UNDERSTOOD
  imp. & p. p. of Understand.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• IMPLICITNESS
  State or quality of being implicit.
• OCCULTED
  Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon. (more info) 1. Hidden; secret. Shak.
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• IMPLICITY
  Implicitness. Cotgrave.
• CONSTRUCTIVELY
  In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
• SECRET
  segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• POTENTIAL
  1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle. Potential existence means merely
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• SIMPLIFICATION
  The act of simplifying. A. Smith.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• PARIPINNATE
  Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
• INSUBSTANTIAL
  Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." Shak.
• SUPERSUBSTANTIAL
  More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.
• UNPRACTICAL
  Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.