tacitly

Adverb

Meaning

in a tacit manner; by unexpressed agreement

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Synonyms

indirectly quietly weakly silently calmly tacit softly faintly acquiesce mutely stilly inarticulately dumbly sotto voce noiselessly
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Antonyms

exactly clearly barely hardly loosely angrily
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Phrases with the word

tacitly assumed accept tacitly

Anagrams

cattily tactily

Examples

they are tacitly expected to work 10 hours a day Source: Internet

After the worldwide success of the Borat film, the Kazakh government, including the president, altered their stance on Baron Cohen's parody, tacitly recognising the invaluable press coverage the controversy created for their country. Source: Internet

Alameda County effectively surrendered on Tuesday, announcing that “the factory can reopen if Tesla adopts safety recommendations in addition to a new plan the company submitted on Monday” while tacitly “allowing” Musk to go ahead regardless. Source: Internet

Although wife Margaret, a blue-blooded Bostonian, has obvious disdain for the "peasant" and "dreadful" hillbillies, she tacitly agrees to tolerate them (rather than Milburn lose their ever growing account—which is $96,000,000 in 1969, equal to $ today). Source: Internet

Because it is boring for games to be drawn out indefinitely, serious Abalone players tacitly agree to play aggressively. Source: Internet

Besides axiom 1-5 and definition 1-3, a few other axioms from modal logic were tacitly used in the proof. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Tacitean Tacitian Tacitism tacitly assumed tacitness tacitron