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say it: TAS-it
tacit is an adjective meaning "implied by or inferred from actions or statements". It carries one recorded sense.
implied by or inferred from actions or statements
“gave silent consent”
“a tacit agreement”
“the understood provisos of a custody agreement”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tacit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.