Also spelled tacite

US /ˈtæsɪt/
adj Freq #52909

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Understood or agreed without being said directly.

    There was a tacit agreement between them never to mention the past.

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Synonyms
1 adj · understood or agreed... silentunderstood
Word family
Derived forms tacitlytacitness
Related forms tacendatacettaciturntaciturnitytaciturnly

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”).

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