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TACIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tacit mean?
• TACIT (adjective)
The adjective TACIT has 1 sense:
1. implied by or inferred from actions or statements
Familiarity information: TACIT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Implied by or inferred from actions or statements
Synonyms:
silent; tacit; understood
Context example:
the understood provisos of a custody agreement
Similar:
implicit; inexplicit (implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something)
Context examples
And furthermore, he wouldn't claim, not even by tacit acceptance, to be familiar with anything that was unfamiliar.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To his tacit engagement with Miss de Bourgh?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The blush that rose to my own cheeks somehow set us both at ease, for it was a tacit answer to her own.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As it was, the situation stopped there in the only way it could; but I was left alone in my little hut, glowing warmly through and through with a pleasant satisfaction; and I knew that a tie, or a tacit something, existed between us which had not existed before.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he had been directed to gain, no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing decree of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
At such moments she found justification for her treason to her standards, for her violation of her own high ideals, and, most of all, for her tacit disobedience to her mother and father.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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