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- Dictionarytacit/ˈtasɪt/
adjective
- 1. understood or implied without being stated: "your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement"
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TACIT definition: 1. understood without being expressed directly: 2. not expressing or talking about something…. Learn more.
The meaning of TACIT is expressed or carried on without words or speech. How to use tacit in a sentence.
TACIT meaning: 1. understood without being expressed directly: 2. not expressing or talking about something…. Learn more.
If you refer to someone's tacit agreement or approval, you mean they are agreeing to something or approving it without actually saying so, often because they are unwilling to admit to doing so. The question was a tacit admission that a mistake had indeed been made.
Something tacit is implied or understood without question. Holding hands might be a tacit acknowledgment that a boy and girl are dating.
Tacit definition: understood without being openly expressed; implied. See examples of TACIT used in a sentence.
1. implied or inferred without direct expression; understood: a tacit agreement. 2. (Law) created or having effect by operation of law, rather than by being directly expressed. [C17: from Latin tacitus, past participle of tacēre to be silent] ˈtacitly adv. ˈtacitness n.
