implicit

In a sentence

Six example sentences with implicit, each labelled with its topic.

• The lease never mentioned pets, but the court found an implicit permission in ten years of the landlord's silence.

  Law

• Nothing in the memo said the office was closing, yet the implicit message was clear to everyone who read it.

  Business

• Children absorb implicit rules about taking turns long before any adult states them, simply by watching how conversations unfold.

  Psychology

• Every ethical argument rests on some implicit premise, and the seminar's job was to drag each one into the open.

  Philosophy

• There is an implicit rule that the last shot goes to the veteran, and nobody on the bench has ever said it aloud.

  Basketball

• The story's tension is implicit, carried in pauses and closed doors rather than in anything a character says.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains implicit. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• modification
• imply
• enhance
• precisely
• projecting
• core
• recovering
• peripheral
• preceding
• adaptation
• arbitrary
• varying