Tacit
['tæsɪt]
Definition
(a.) Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Implied, understood, inferred, silent, unexpressed (by words).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Silent, implied, understood, implicit, unexpressed
ANT:Open, avowed, expressed, formal, declared
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Definition
adj. implied but not expressed by words: silent giving no sound.—adv. Tac′itly.—n. Tac′itness.—adj. Tac′iturn habitually tacit or silent: not fond of talking: reserved in speech.—ns. Tac′iturnist one habitually taciturn; Taciturn′ity habitual silence: reserve in speaking.—adv. Tac′iturnly.
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Examples
- To his tacit engagement with Miss de Bourgh? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- So he wobbled upon a tacit assumption of social standing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No one referred to it, and this tacit avoidance of the subject kept it in the immediate foreground of consciousness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- A secret feud of some years' standing was thus healed, and with a tacit reconciliation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Edith was in the mood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She did as he suggested; and the act was a tacit acknowledgment that she accepted his offer. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That this mixture arises from a tacit comparison of the person contemned or respected with ourselves is no less evident. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- She knows that I know, said the ever-restless voice within; but that increase of tacit knowledge only thrust further off any confidence between them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She thought he seemed to acknowledge some kinship between her and him, a natural, tacit understanding, a using of the same language. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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