Tacit Definition

tăsĭt
adjective
Saying nothing; still.
Webster's New World
Not spoken.
Indicated tacit approval by smiling and winking.
American Heritage
Unspoken; silent.
Webster's New World
Not expressed or declared openly, but implied or understood.
Tacit approval.
Webster's New World
Happening without contract but by operation of law.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Tacit

  • From Latin tacitus (“that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent"), from tacere (“to be silent").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin tacitus silent past participle of tacēre to be silent

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tacit Sentence Examples

  • He gave his tacit approval in letters to the media.

  • Dean was beginning to have serious reservations about the trip and his tacit agreement to it now that it was a real­ity.

  • He kept his tacit knowledge at a distance from the investigators.

  • For many years there was almost tacit agreement that what people needed where computers were involved was just more training.

  • It was a tacit assumption; however, that is all the information that is already known.

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