tacit

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.

   tacit consent

2. 2
   adj

   implied by or inferred from actions or statements

3. 3
   adj

   Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

Etymology

Borrowed from late Middle French tacite, or from Latin tacitus (“that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent”), from tacere (“to be silent”).