tacit

adjective
🔊/ˈtæsɪt/
🔊/ˈtæsɪt/
[usually before noun]
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  1. that is suggested indirectly or understood, rather than said in words心照不宣的;不言而喻的;默示的
    • tacit approval/support/knowledge默许;暗中支持;了然于心的认识
    • By tacit agreement, the subject was never mentioned again.根据达成的默契,这个话题从未再提起过。🔊🔊
    Topics Suggestions and advicec2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryTacit is used with these nouns:
    • acceptance
    • acknowledgement
    • admission
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘wordless, noiseless’): from Latin tacitus, past participle of tacere ‘be silent’.