Tacit

Definition: Tacit

Tacit

Adjective

1. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement".

Date "tacit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Tacit

Synonyms: implied (adj), silent (adj), understood (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Latency Implication	Unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold; unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed; unexpressed; not expressed, tacit.
Unmeaningness	Unmeant, not expressed; tacit; (latent).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tacit

English words defined with "tacit": connivance ♦ express ♦ implied ♦ secret approval, silent ♦ tacit consent, tacitly ♦ understood. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tacit": tacit renewal clause. (references)

Etymologies containing "tacit": reticent ♦ taciturn. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Tacit" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (tacit, tacitly).

Domain	Title
Books	Knowledge, Skill, and Artificial Intelligence: Tacit Knowledge and New Technology (reference) Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension: Symbolic Form in the Rhetoric of Silence (Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning) (reference) Representations of Vision: Trends and Tacit Assumptions in Vision Research (reference) Some Explicit Thoughts On Tacit Learning [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Tacit Dimension (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Maps of Tacit (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	There is a common distinction of an express and a tacit consent, which will concern our present case. (Second Treatise of Government)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Non-profit organizations in Argentina, with its tacit and vociferous leader Greenpeace, are still not satisfied with the progress thus far; they see the national government relegating renewable energy to a marginal role, supporting it only for its rural social programs. (references)
Civil Liberties	Bhutan	This policy was followed under a tacit agreement with China. (references)
	Algeria	On May 31, as many as 20,000 demonstrators marched in Algiers with the tacit approval of the Government. (references)
Economic History	Netherlands	Included in the articles of incorporation must be information on any special agreements that will obligate the company being set up. Such expressed or tacit agreements may relate to acquisition of shares on a preferential basis or assuring the founder of a profit or payment. (references)
Human Rights	Colombia	Evidence suggests that there were tacit arrangements between local military commanders and paramilitary groups in some regions, and paramilitary forces operated freely in some areas despite a significant military presence. (references)
Political Economy	Cameroon	After waiting for 6 months for a government response, one station assumed tacit approval and began to broadcast. (references)
	Angola	Other than those personnel assigned to elite units, the Government gives tacit permission for security personnel to supplement their income by the extortion of civilians. (references)
Worker Rights	Dominican Republic	The Government has attempted to eliminate the use of children for cutting sugar cane; however, there are still reports that poor Haitian and Dominican children accompany their parents to work in the cane fields, with the tacit acceptance of sugar companies. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Tacit" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tacit" is used about 299 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	299	16,795

Expressions using "tacit": tacit agreement ♦ tacit approval ♦ tacit consent ♦ tacit recognition ♦ tacit renewal clause ♦ tacit understanding. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "tacit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pashprehur me fjalë, i nënkuptuar (implicit, implied). (various references)

Arabic		‏مفهوم ضمنا (implicit, implied), ‏مقدر (estimated, evaluated, fatal, fated, fateful, implied, predestined, rated), ‏مضمر, ‏ضمني (implicit, implied, underlying), ‏صامت (dumb, mum, mute, noiseless, quiet, silenced, silent, speechless, still, surd, tight lipped, unvoiced, voiceless, whist, wordless). (various references)

Chinese		心照不宣. (various references)

Czech		tichý (calm, mum, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, quiet, restful, silent, soundless, still, stock-still, subdued, tranquil, unspoken), nevyslovený (implied, unmentioned, unsaid, unspoken, unvoiced). (various references)

Danish		stiltiende samtykke (tacit consent). (various references)

Dutch		stilzwijgend goedvinden (tacit consent), onbewuste kennis (tacit knowledge), impliciete kennis (tacit knowledge). (various references)

Farsi		مفهوم (Concept, Context, Effect, Hang, Implication, Implicit, Intelligible, Intention, Moral, Purporst, Sense, Significance, Sound, Substance), مقدر (Fey), ضمنی (Accident, Incident), ضمنا (Meantime, Meanwhile), خاموش (Quiet, Silent, Still, Taciturn, Uncommunicative, Whist), بارامی وسکوت . (various references)

Finnish		äänetön (silent, soundless, still). (various references)

French		tacite, implicite. (various references)

German		stillschweigend (being silent, implicit, silent, tacitly, unspoken, unwritten), stillschweigende. (various references)

Greek		σκωπηρόσ, σιωπηρόσ, σιωπηλόσ (mum, silent, tightlipped, tongue tied, wordless). (various references)

Hebrew		מרומז (hinted, implicit, implied, suggested), לא כתוב, שותק (silent), שבשתיק�". (various references)

Hungarian		hallgatólagos (connivance, implicit, implied, unspoken). (various references)

Indonesian		berdiam (be silent, say nothing). (various references)

Italian		tacito (silent, unspoken). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		暗黙 (implicit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あ�"もく (implicit), もくもく (mute, silent). (various references)

Korean		무언 (Wordless). (various references)

Manx		tostagh (incommunicative, noiseless, reserved, reticent, silence, silent, taciturn). (various references)

Pig Latin		acittay.(various references)

Portuguese		tácito (implicit), subentendido (implicit), implícito (constructive, implicate, implicit, understood). (various references)

Romanian		tacit (tacitly), tãcut (close-lipped, discreet, dumb, mousy, mum, quiet, reserved, silent, silently, still, sullen, voiceless). (various references)

Russian		молчаливый (inarticulate, mum, mute, silent, taciturn, tight lipped, tight-lipped), подразумеваемый (implicit, implied). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prećutan. (various references)

Spanish		tácito (mum, unspoken). (various references)

Swedish		underförstådd (implicit, implied), tyst (hush, implicit, in silence, mental reservation, mum, mute, noiseless, quiet, quietly, silence, silent, silently, still). (various references)

Thai		เป็นนัย. (various references)

Turkish		sessiz (close-tongued, dumb, hushed, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonviolent, non-violent, quiescent, quiet, reserved, reticent, silent, soundless, speechless, still, surd, taciturn, tuneless, unvoiced, voiceless, without a sound, wordless), sözsüz (speechless), söylenmeden anlaşılan, konuşmayan (close-tongued, incommunicative, tongue tied). (various references)

Ukranian		мовчазний (broody, dumb, inarticulate, mum, mute, obmutescent, quiescent, reticent, silent, soundless, stilly, taciturn, tight lipped, uncommunicative, wordless), мислений (ideal, mental). (various references)

Vietnamese		ngầm (insinuative, latent, mute), không nói ra (ulterior, unsaid). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tacitus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tacit": tacitly, tacitness, tacitnesses, taciturn, taciturnities, taciturnity. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tacit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acit, Atassut, Attitb, ctgaacat, racit, tabit, Tabito, tacay, tacfit, Tachiste, taci, tacid, tacif, tacin, tacip, tacity, tacte, tactite, tacy, tafi, taiot, Taitz, taji, Takai, Takata, Takfir, taki, tarit, tasi, tasit, tassit, Tassotti, tatic, taui, tavi, taxit, Tayib, tazi, tebit, teki, tici, ticia, tigit, toait, tobit, tosit, toxity, tracit, Tucci, tuckit, tucxi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tacit" (pronounced ta"sut)
4	-a" s u t	Basset, facet.
3	-s u t	complicit, corset, cosset, deficit, dulcet, elicit, explicit, faucet, illicit, implicit, knesset, Lancet, russet, solicit.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: attic.
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-t-t"
	-1 letter: tact.
	-2 letters: act, ait, att, cat, tat, tic, tit.
	-3 letters: ai, at, it, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-t-t"
	+1 letter: attics, cattie, intact, static, tactic, tictac, tipcat.
	+2 letters: astatic, astrict, atactic, catmint, cattail, cattier, catties, cattily, catting, cattish, cavetti, citator, citrate, dictate, ectatic, lattice, nictate, ricotta, statice, statics, tabetic, tachist, tacitly, tactics, tactile, taction, tantric, taxitic, tetanic, tictacs, tipcart, tipcats, titanic.
	+3 letters: abstrict, activate, activist, activity, amitotic, anticity, anticult, apatetic, artifact, artistic, astricts, athletic, atrocity, atticism, atticist, autistic, bathetic, brattice, capitate, castrati, catamite, catfight, catmints, cattails, cattiest, cavitate, chapatti, chartist, chastity, chattier, chattily, chatting, chitchat, citation, citators, citatory, citrated, citrates, coattail, cogitate, cristate, dictated, dictates, dictator, distract, ecstatic, entastic, eustatic, excitant, incitant, interact, latticed, lattices, mastitic, nictated, nictates, oscitant, pathetic, pittance, protatic, ricottas, sanctity, scattier, scatting, staccati, statical, statices, staticky, stomatic, tabetics, tachiste, tachists, taciturn, tackiest, taconite, tactical, tactions, tailcoat, tantalic, tartaric, tenacity, tetanics, tetracid, tetradic, theatric, thematic, thetical, ticktack, tipcarts, toxicant, tractile, traction, tractive, trictrac, trifecta, triptyca, tunicate, urticant, urticate.
	+4 letters: abstricts, acquittal, acquitted, acquitter, activated, activates, activator, activists, actuality, actuating, actuation, aesthetic, antarctic, antistick, antitoxic, apathetic, apoptotic, architect, arthritic, artifacts, asthmatic, astricted, ataractic, atavistic, atheistic, athletics, atomistic, attaching, attacking, atticisms, atticists, authentic, autistics, autolytic, automatic, autotelic, bratticed, brattices, captivate, captivity, carnotite, castigate, catalatic, catalytic, catamites, catatonia, catatonic, catchiest, catechist, catfights, cathartic, cathectic, catoptric, catteries, cattiness, cavaletti, cavitated, cavitates, certainty, chapattis, chartists, chattiest, chitchats, cigarette, citations, coattails, cobaltite, cogitated, cogitates, committal, craftiest, crepitant, crepitate, cultivate, culturati, diastatic, diathetic, dictating, dictation, dictators, distracts, ecstatics, emittance, epistatic, excitants, extricate, facetting, facticity, factitive, fantastic, geotactic, hematitic, incitants, injectant, interacts, intestacy, intricate, isostatic, isotactic, katabatic, keratotic, kickstart, lactating, lactation, lateritic, latticing, manicotti, masticate, microwatt, micturate, nictating, nictitate, outacting, patchiest, patriotic, patristic, pectinate, petticoat, pittances, prostatic, quittance, rusticate, scantiest, scattiest, statistic, steatitic, stemmatic, stigmatic, strategic, syntactic, systaltic, tachistes, tacitness, taconites, tactician, tactilely, tactility, tailcoats, testacies, tetracids, thatchier, thatching, theatrics, thematics, ticktacks, tictacked, toxicants, trachytic, tracksuit, tractions, traumatic, triatomic, trictracs, trifectas, triptycas, triticale, tunicated, tunicates, urticants, urticated, urticates, ventifact, waistcoat.
	+5 letters: abstricted, acquittals, acquitters, acquitting, actability, actinolite, activating, activation, activators, activistic, activities, actuations, admittance, aesthetics, altruistic, ancientest, anecdotist, anesthetic, anorthitic, anthracite, antibiotic, anticipant, anticipate, antiemetic, antierotic, antipoetic, antiracist, antiseptic, antistatic, antithetic, architects, aristocrat, arithmetic, arthritics, articulate, asthmatics, astigmatic, astricting, astrocytic, asymptotic, ataractics, atrocities, attracting, attraction, attractive, austenitic, autocratic, autodidact, autoerotic, automatics, backbitten, backfitted, backstitch, bratticing, cantatrice, cantatrici, cantillate, capacitate, capitalist, capitation, capitulate, captivated, captivates, captivator, carnotites, carrotiest, cartoonist, castigated, castigates, castigator, castrating, castration, catabolite, catalectic, cataleptic, catatonias, catatonics, catechists, catenating, catenation, cathartics, cathecting, causticity, cavalletti, cavitating, cavitation, centralist, centrality, certainest, chapatties, chastities, chattering, chattiness, cigarettes, citational, clattering, coadmitted, coaptation, cobaltites, cogitating, cogitation, cogitative, cohabitant, colatitude, combatting, committals, compatriot, constative, constipate, constraint, contacting, continuant, continuate, contradict, corotating, corotation, cottontail, creativity, crepitated, crepitates, cryostatic, cultivated, cultivates, cultivator, cunctation, cunctative, cutability, cytopathic, cytostatic, deactivate, decapitate, detoxicant, detoxicate, detracting, detraction, detractive, dictations, distracted, elasticity, emittances, empathetic, eructating, eructation, ethicality, exactitude, excitation, excitative, excitatory, excogitate, extracting, extraction, extractive, extricated, extricates, facilitate, factitious, factualist, factuality, fantastico, fantastics, fatalistic, felicitate, fianchetti, fianchetto, haircutter, hematocrit, hemostatic, hypostatic, hypotactic, immittance, inactivate, inactivity, inartistic, incitation, incogitant, inconstant, injectants, intactness, interacted, intercaste, intoxicant, intoxicate, kickstarts, lactations, lathyritic, licentiate, masticated, masticates, masticator, matchstick, mathematic, meritocrat, metaethics, metastatic, metathetic, microstate, microwatts, micturated, micturates, multitrack, nativistic, nictitated, nictitates, paratactic, pathetical, patriciate, patristics, pegmatitic, pentatonic, petticoats, picketboat, plasticity, postatomic, postcoital, postimpact, psittacine, punctation, quartzitic, quittances, racketiest, ratcheting, reactivate, reactivity, recitalist, recitation, recitative, recitativi, recitativo, remittance, reticulate, retractile, retracting, retraction, rheostatic, rickettsia, rusticated, rusticates, rusticator, sanctities, scattering, snatchiest, solicitant, spasticity, spectating, stalactite, starchiest, statically, statistics, stigmatics, stochastic, syntactics, systematic, tactically, tacticians, tailcoated, taperstick, tautomeric, telepathic, tenacities, testicular, tetracaine, tetrameric, tetrarchic, thatchiest, theatrical, theistical, theocratic, thetically, ticktacked, tictacking, timocratic, tinctorial, tomcatting, topicality, totalistic, tracheitis, tracksuits, tractional, trajecting, trajection, transcript, triacetate, trichromat, trifurcate, triplicate, triticales, truncating, truncation, tympanitic, typicality, ultraistic, unartistic, unathletic, unchastity, urticating, urtication, vaticinate, ventifacts, vitalistic, waistcoats, wildcatted, wildcatter, witchcraft, wristwatch.
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