tacitly
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7.3
- adverb
- /ˈtæsɪtli/
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tácitamente
- I did not shut the door, tacitly agreeing to hear him out.
- tacitly acknowledges
- tacitly accepted
- tacitly endorsed
And then their members began to speak, at least tacitly, and it was never an issue.
- And then their members began to speak, at least tacitly, and it was never an issue.
- And that is partly what motivated business elites and others to at least tacitly support the the New Deal.
- The difference in your responses between the lucky and the unlucky cases indicate the degree to which you tacitly subscribe to that.
- And the backlash was so severe that eventually just about everybody at least tacitly understood that the courts had to back off.
- And what we've done is to tacitly put all of them at the end and say, what are we going to do with these years?
- We must show that time is that from which design tacitly understands and interpret something like being at all.
Examples
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I feel that to remain silent is to tacitly approve of their actions.
Blog text (22) -
By not responding we're tacitly allowing these things to go unchallenged.
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And then their members began to speak, at least tacitly, and it was never an issue.
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You, you tacitly decided for our form of government, for what we were going to do.
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But then the government, which had tacitly allowed such arrangements before, put its foot down.
Blog text (23) -
And the backlash was so severe that eventually just about everybody at least tacitly understood that the courts had to back off.
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Whether or not the knowledge, beliefs, and values that teachers hold tacitly can be articulated is an important question.
Academic text (1991) -
And that is partly what motivated business elites and others to at least tacitly support the the New Deal.
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In fact, Blair mused, Bush seemed to tacitly distance himself from the hawks in his administration.
Blog text (18) -
After a long discussion, the team tacitly agreed to proceed with the project without any further objections.
Synonyms
78
4.2
In a way that does not say something clearly, often by a hint or through someone else
41
5.6
In a way that is understood without being directly said
1
7.9
In a way that shows something without saying it
Antonyms
How Explicit
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tacitly comes from the Latin tacere, which means 'to be silent', and is connected to the English adjective tacit, which also means 'silent'. So, to do something tacitly is to do it by silence or by an unspoken agreement, without saying it aloud.