Tacit

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not spoken: indicated tacit approval by smiling and winking.
  • adj. Implied by or inferred from actions or statements: Management has given its tacit approval to the plan.
  • adj. Law Arising by operation of the law rather than through direct expression.
  • adj. Archaic Not speaking; silent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
  • adj. Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Silent; quiescent; giving out no sound.
  • Silently indicated or implied; understood from conditions or circumstances; inferred or inferable; expressed otherwise than by speech; indirectly mainfested or communicated; wordless.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  • Equivalent
    implicit    inexplicit   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    tacitness    tacitly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    silent    implied   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bassett    basset   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unspoken    implicit    unqualified    mutual    unequivocal    unanimous    prior    unconditional    mute    unreserved