implict v.s unequivocal v.s overt

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jeff_999  #147837  Fri, 14 Oct 05 04:11 PM

IMPLICIT
A. unadulaterated
B.
overt
C. abstract
D. unequivocal
E. germane

(Choose a lettered word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in the capital letters.)

I was caught in dilemma whether to choose A or B. Thank you.

  
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pieanne  #147872  Fri, 14 Oct 05 06:12 PM

I prefer B. "Implicit" means "implied". "Adulterated" (mind the typo!) means "mixed (with)", so its opposite would be something like "pure"

 

  
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jeff_999  #148118  Sat, 15 Oct 05 05:10 PM
I think it is C.

Implicit: not directly expressed. Its antonym: directly expressed; having no ambiguity. i.e. unequivocal.

Overt: not hidden, concealed. Its antonym: concealed.

  
pieanne  #148346  Sun, 16 Oct 05 10:07 AM

Careful, Jeff: C is "abstract"!

 

  
paco2004  #148349  Sun, 16 Oct 05 10:10 AM

Should be B. "Implicit" is the antonym of "explicit". And "overt" is a synonym of "explicit". 

 

  
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jeff_999  #148431  Sun, 16 Oct 05 03:50 PM
 Pieanne wrote:

Careful, Jeff: C is "abstract"!

 


hehe Thank you, Pieanne. My mistake.
  
jeff_999  #148434  Sun, 16 Oct 05 03:51 PM
But something covert is not the same as soemthing not directly expressed.
  
pieanne  #148441  Sun, 16 Oct 05 04:03 PM

Don't link "covert" with "covered"... "Covert" means "implied", which is the total antonym of "implicit".

 

  
davkett  #148444  Sun, 16 Oct 05 04:10 PM
 Pieanne wrote:

 "Covert" means "implied", which is the total antonym of "implicit".

Pieanne, did you also make a flub here?--  Implied is an antonym of implicit?

Here's the corrected version of my earlier post ( which I've since deleted  because it was so misleading due to the missing word):

In addition, Jeff--  implicit does not have a  synonym in ambiguous.  Something expressed indirectly is not the same as something expressed ambiguously.  Directness/indirectness should not be equated to clarity/ambiguity.

To quote a well-known  ambiguity in a direct expression:  'I saw the man on a hill with a telescope.'  (Credit to a recent post by CJ.) 

 

 

  
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