implicitly
/ˌɪmplˈɪsətli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Without doubting or questioning.
Example Sentences
- "tell someone implicitly"
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English implicit Middle English -ly English -ly English implicitly From implicit + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more implicitly (comparative)
most implicitly (superlative)