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tacit adjective [ ˈtasɪt ]

• understood or implied without being stated.
• "your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement"
Similar: implicit, understood, implied, inferred, hinted, suggested, insinuated, unspoken, unstated, undeclared, unsaid, unexpressed, unmentioned, unvoiced, silent, mute, wordless, not spelt out, taken for granted, taken as read,
Opposite: explicit, stated,
Origin: early 17th century (in the sense ‘wordless, noiseless’): from Latin tacitus, past participle of tacere ‘be silent’.


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