tacit
understood or implied without being openly stated
Word origin: From Latin tacere, to be silent.
Tacit in a sentence
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Their tacit agreement allowed the project to proceed without a single word being exchanged.
Their tacit agreement to avoid the subject held until a reporter raised it directly at the press conference.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The novelist's late style is admired precisely for its blank: every superfluous phrase has been pared away, leaving prose of startling economy.
Using “tacit” well
Tacit means understood or implied without being openly stated, as in tacit consent or a tacit understanding. Do not confuse it with taciturn, which describes a person who says little.
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to dull or damage the luster, reputation, or purity of something
needlessly repeating an idea using different words
needless repetition of the same idea in different words
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