implicitly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb without doubting or questioning
    • I implicitly trust him
  2. adverb without ever expressing so clearly
    • he implicitly assumes that you know the answer

WordNet


Im*plic"it*ly adverb
Definitions
  1. In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence.
    Not to dispute the methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury.
  2. By implication; impliedly; as, to deny the providence of God is implicitly to deny his existence. Bentley.

Webster 1913