implicit
adjectiveUnderstood or suggested without being stated directly.
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Understood or suggested without being stated directly.
To ask urgently and earnestly.
To suggest or communicate something indirectly.
To make poor or seriously reduce available resources.
Unlikely to happen or to be true.
Done or spoken with little or no advance preparation.
With little preparation
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Conduct or expression considered improper or unsuitable.
Rudely bold or disrespectful.
To challenge the truth, integrity, or validity of something.
Acting on a sudden urge without much prior consideration.
Freedom from punishment or adverse consequences for wrongdoing.
An attribution, especially an allegation of fault or wrongdoing.
To attribute a quality, action, or fault to someone.
In place of something else.
A failure to meet a need or standard, or a deficiency that causes such a failure.
Insufficient in amount, quality, or ability for a particular purpose.
Insufficient for the purpose
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Unintentional or resulting from inattention.
Unable to be taken away or transferred.
Lacking sense, significance, or substance.
Without sense or substance
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Unable to express ideas or feelings clearly in speech.
Unpromising or unfavorable at the beginning.
Made unable to function or act normally.
Something that encourages or motivates action.
Continuing with little or no interruption.
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