Antonyms for tacit
ˈtæs ɪttac·it

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1. tacit

   Antonyms:
   open, avowed, expressed, formal, declared

   Synonyms:
   silent, implied, understood, implicit, unexpressed

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1. silent, tacit, understoodadjective

   implied by or inferred from actions or statements

   "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement"

   Antonyms:
   explicit, expressed

   Synonyms:
   soundless, mute, silent, still, understood, mum, dumb, unsounded

How to use tacit in a sentence?

1. Esko Mustamaki:

   There are lots of details but no concrete list for building an Arctic vessel, it's more about tacit knowledge.

2. Brian Hart:

   China is willing to give Russia some tacit support politically, diplomatically and to some extent economically, but the bottom line is that it isn't going to go out of its way and undercut its other strategic objectives to support Russia.

3. Taipei Mayor Chiang:

   If you can manage the relationship between Beijing and Taipei well, then that will – to some extent – reduce the pressure from that kind of dollar diplomacy, if both sides can reach some sort of tacit understanding … then we will avoid that kind of bad situation.

4. Henry James:

   There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

5. Marsha Blackburn:

   The U.S. Olympic Committee’s dismissal of our concerns is a tacit endorsement of communist China’s behavior, we have no assurances that our athletes will be safe at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and have no reason to believe that the Chinese Communist Party will not leverage their position to weaponize its new digital currency and national security law to target U.S. athletes.

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