inexplicitadj.
/ɪnɛkˈsplɪsɪt/ Not explicit; not definitely expressed or expressive; not clear in terms or statement.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adjective]
covert1393
sidelinga1500
implieda1535
insinuate1534
understood1576
implicative1602
insinuated1605
reserved1607
whispered1608
interpretative1610
implicit1613
tacit1637
tacid1651
adumbrative1751
inexplicit1827
inexpress1871
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective] > vague or inexplicit
oblique?a1475
overthwart1545
indirect1584
slenting1642
undeterminate1649
vaguea1661
wide1662
indeterminate1773
unexplicit1775
nebulose1799
imprecise1805
misty1816
nebulous1817
inexplicit1827
fuzzy1937
soft-focused1942
wifty-wafty1943
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. i. vii. 116 You have yourself, though in an obscure and inexplicit way..been delivering to me a proposition.
1847 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 5. 256 The description..is..inexplicit.
1886 Sat. Rev. 20 Feb. 245 The grumbles were inexplicit and almost inarticulate.
Derivatives
inexˈplicitly adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adverb]
sidelings?a1400
covertlyc1400
impliedlyc1449
by implicationa1575
implicatelya1575
implicatively1579
over the shoulder1596
interpretatively1602
implicitly1610
indirectly1613
insinuatively1617
enfoldedly1624
involvedly1624
tacitly1635
tacidly1640
by interpretation1692
adumbratively1753
inexplicitly1776
interpretively1867
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adverb] > vaguely or inexplicitly
overthwartly1571
indirectly1598
implicitly1635
unexplicit1775
inexplicitly1776
vaguely1781
indeterminately1835
woollily1937
1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxi. 103 Two structures yet remain, either omitted or mentioned inexplicitly by Pausanias.
inexˈplicitness n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [noun] > vagueness or inexplicitness
ambage1520
vagueness1799
imprecision1803
inexplicitness1869
impreciseness1907
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [noun] > communicating indirectly > condition of
whisperingnessa1586
whisperhood1710
inexplicitness1869
implicativeness1932
1869 A. W. Potts Lat. Pr. Comp. (1870) 2 Indistinctness, inexplicitness..were faults which excluded a writer from the list of literary men.
1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) xi. 572 Saying a great deal in brief compass, and with all the entailed consequences of inexplicitness.
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adj.1776