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say it: TAS-it
tacit is an adjective meaning "implied by or inferred from actions or statements". It is pronounced /ˈtæsɪt/ — TAS-it. 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.