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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæsɪt/

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• Rhymes: -æsɪt
• Homophones: tacet, tasset

tacit (comparative more tacit, superlative most tacit)

1. Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.

   tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection

   • 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, page 62:

     He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.

   • 2004, Lawrence Pratchett, Vivien Lowndes, editors, Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary, →ISBN:

     […] disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions and processes, especially among young people, […]

2. (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

• tacitly
• tacitness
• tacit programming
• tacit collusion

• tacet
• taciturn
• taciturnity
• taciturnly

• “tacit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tacit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “tacit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Attic, Catti, attic, ticat

Borrowed from French tacite, from Latin tacitus.

• IPA^(key): /taˈt͡ʃit/

tacit m or n (feminine singular tacită, masculine plural taciți, feminine and neuter plural tacite)

1. unspoken

• “tacit”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025