Direct and Implied

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Direct

Direct adjective - Done or working without something else coming in between.
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Implied is an antonym for direct.
Nearby Words: direction, directed, directly, directing, directness

Implied

Implied adjective - Understood although not put into words.
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Direct is an antonym for implied.
Nearby Words: imply, implication, implying
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  • Yet nothing sexual has ever been implied in the series, pushing against the trope that suggests love and romance (implied or direct) must involve sex.
    Source: Sex Equals Love
  • Strongly implied in the final monthly Sabrina Online comic, which is a direct lampshaded Call Back to Timothy's conception, which was a Shotgun Wedding instead.
    Source: Wedding-Enhanced Fertility
  • Non-Lethal Warfare Transformers Animated seems to instead largely avoid showing direct warfare: most of the battles we see are small scale, and all of the fighting in Ratchet's flashbacks are implied instead of shown.
    Source: Non-Lethal Warfare
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