tacit
/ˈtæsɪt/
tacit adjective: implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.
Adjective
tacit (comparative more tacit, superlative most tacit)
- Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.
- tacit consent
- Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn’t jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot,1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
- Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
tacit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
tacit in Hindi
- tacit
- अनकहा ankahā
tacit in Tamil
- குறிப்பாய் அமைந்துள்ள, வாய்விட்டுச் சொல்லாத, மௌன சம்மதம், இரகசிய ஒப்புதல்
tacit in Urdu
- خاموش
tacit in Bengali
- মৌখিক না বলে প্রকাশিত
More languagesFewer languages
- tacit in Malayalam
- മൂകമായ, ഊമയായ, പരസ്യമായി കുറിക്കാത്ത
- tacit in Kannada
- ಅಡಗಿರುವ, ನೇರವಲ್ಲದ, ಬಾಯಿ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಹೇಳದ, ಮೌನದಿಂದ ಸೂಚಿಸಿದ
- tacit in Gujarati
- વણકહ્યું vaṇkahyũ
- tacit in Sanskrit
- मानस mānasa
- tacit in Arabic
- ضِمْنَيّ ḍimnayy
- tacit in Persian
- ضمنی zemni
Examples of tacit in a sentence
- He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, page 62:
- […] disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions and processes, especially among young people, […]2004, Lawrence Pratchett, Vivien Lowndes, editors, Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary, →ISBN:
Forms of tacit
| comparative | more tacit |
|---|---|
| superlative | most tacit |
Origin of tacit
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”).
Words formed from tacit
Phrases with tacit
Words that rhyme with tacit
Questions about tacit
- What does tacit mean?
- Tacit means implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.
- What is tacit in Hindi?
- Tacit in Hindi is अनकहा (ankahā). See Tacit meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use tacit in a sentence?
- He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.
- What part of speech is tacit?
- Tacit is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tacit?
- Tacit is pronounced /ˈtæsɪt/.
Words near tacit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tacit (page history and authors); अनकहा (Hindi) (page history and authors); tacit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tacit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tacit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tacit (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tacit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); વણકહ્યું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); मानस (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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