implicit
Hinted at, unspoken
Implicit describes something understood without being directly stated.
An implicit agreement exists through actions rather than words.
Implicit trust is complete and unquestioning.
In contrast to explicit, which is spelled out, implicit meaning must be inferred from context: Her silence carried implicit disapproval.
In mathematics, an implicit function is defined by an equation rather than stated directly.
Understood without words
- assumedTaken as true
- unspokenNot verbally expressed
- unstatedNot openly expressed
- unwrittenNot set down formally
presupposed · taken-for-granted · accepted · acknowledged · intuited · inferred · recognized · silent
Indirect suggestion
- alludeRefer indirectly
- implyIndicate without stating
- insinuateSuggest without directly stating
- suggestionIdea proposed for consideration
innuendo · subtext · nuance · intimation · connotation · oblique · veiled · circumlocution
Existing since birth
- intrinsicBelonging by nature
- integralAntiderivative or crucial component
- embeddedSet firmly within something
- fundamentalForming the base
built-in · underlying · essential · ingrained · hardwired · constitutive · inbuilt · natural
Kept out of sight
- concealedMade invisible deliberately
- dormantInactive but capable
- underlyingExisting beneath the surface
- potentialLatent capacity for development
subconscious · suppressed · unrevealed · covert · unapparent · masked · obscured · buried
tacit
Understood without words
unwritten · presupposed · taken-for-granted · accepted · acknowledged · intuited · inferred · recognized · silent · mutual
hint
Indirect suggestion
suggestion · innuendo · subtext · nuance · intimation · connotation · oblique · veiled · circumlocution · insinuation
innate
Existing since birth
- intrinsicBelonging by nature
- integralAntiderivative or crucial component
- embeddedSet firmly within something
fundamental · built-in · underlying · essential · ingrained · hardwired · constitutive · inbuilt · natural · core
hidden
Kept out of sight
- concealedMade invisible deliberately
- dormantInactive but capable
- underlyingExisting beneath the surface
potential · subconscious · suppressed · unrevealed · covert · unapparent · masked · obscured · buried · camouflaged
- memoryremember, forget, recall, memorize, recollect
- unexpressedunspoken, unstated, unuttered, suppressed, tacit
- undertonesundertone, connotation, nuance, subtext, innuendo
- addressing modesimmediate, direct, indirect, indexed, relative
- code modifierspublic, private, protected, static, final
- ambiguityambiguity, ambivalence, double meaning, vagueness, equivocation
- implicit biasAutomatic, unintentional stereotyping
- implicit agreementConsent inferred, not stated
- implicit biasesAutomatic associations affecting judgment
- implicit understandingAssumed shared knowledge, unstated
- implicit bias trainingEducation targeting unconscious prejudice