assumed, implicit, implied, inarticulate, inferred, intimated, silent, suggested, taken for granted, undeclared, understood, unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, unstated, unuttered, unvoiced, wordless
Definitionadj. implied by or inferred from actions or statements
Last update: October 13, 2015
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He gave tacit consent to his friend. [adjective]
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There had been a tacit agreement that the police would not harass the migrants while they were queuing for their daily meal. [adjective]
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But by tacit consent it is determined to conceal them from all, and we conceal them. [Please select]
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Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is commonly supposed. [Please select]
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Often this knowledge is tacit (Schon, 1983) and largely implicit (Weick, 1995). [Please select]
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Stephanus and Paulus were silent, and yet a tacit intercourse subsisted between them as they sat gazing towards the west, where the sun was near its setting. [Please select]
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Already there seemed a tacit understanding between them and the new driver, who had performed his part calmly, and with the confidence which always begets confidence. [Please select]
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] [Footnote J: Tacit. [Please select]
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In tacit acknowledgment of the effect, the Roman spoke as an older man to a younger, not as a master to a slave. [Please select]
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Power is the collective will of the people transferred, by expressed or tacit consent, to their chosen rulers. [Please select]
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Pontellier had been a rather courteous husband so long as he met a certain tacit submissiveness in his wife. [Please select]
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