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implicit
/ˌɪmˈplɪsət/
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Stress “pli,” with a short “i.”
Implicit has three syllables, with the strongest beat on the second. The c represents an s sound, so keep the final syllable light without adding a hard k.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“Her message carried an implicit invitation.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does implicit mean?
adjective
- Suggested indirectly, without being directly expressed; Implied.
- Contained in the essential nature of something but not openly shown.
- Having no reservations or doubts; unquestioning or unconditional; usually said of faith or trust.
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adjective
- (obsolete) entangled, twisted together.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪmˈplɪsət/
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Our fourth credential is that our Organisation alone of England's religious bodies is founded upon the principle of implicit obedience.
There is even a general implicit conviction among them that the grown-up people, too, make words by the wayside as occasion befalls.
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This implicit reasoning is essentially no more peculiar to evangelical belief than the use of wide phrases for narrow motives is peculiar to Englishmen.
After a review designed to bring out the philosophic issues implicit in the previous discussions, philosophy was defined as the generalized theory of education.
He would have wished to judge everything else in the world dispassionately, but anything his father had said was received with almost implicit faith.