tacit

C2 Topic:Describing Qualities

Also spelled tacite

US /ˈtæsɪt/ See IPA manual

Freq #52909

Meanings

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... silent understood

Word family

Derived forms tacitlytacitness

Related forms tacendatacettaciturn taciturnitytaciturnly

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tacit consent
approval understood from conduct or silence rather than stated directly

Adjective + noun

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”).

*te(H)k- Proto-Indo-European tacite Middle French tacitus Latin

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# tacit

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈtæsɪt/
**Frequency rank:** 52909

## Meanings
1. Understood or agreed without being said directly.

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

## Derived Forms
- tacitly
- tacitness

## Related Forms
- tacenda
- tacet
- taciturn
- taciturnity
- taciturnly

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *te(H)k-
- Root: tacite
- Root: tacitus

## 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”).

## AI Etymology
Tacit is 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”). Important recorded forms include *te(H)k- (Proto-Indo-European), tacite (Middle French), and tacitus (Latin). Current senses include understood or agreed without being said directly. The wider family includes derived forms such as tacitly and tacitness and related words such as tacenda, tacet, taciturn, taciturnity, and taciturnly.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities

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