tacit [adjective]: understood without being expressed; unspoken, implied.
Example: Saying “no comment” is usually taken as a tacit admission of guilt.
Related words: tacitly [adverb], tacitness [noun]
Synonyms: assumed, implicit, implied, suggested, inferred, undeclared, understood, unsaid, unspoken, unstated
Antonyms: articulated, asserted, declared, explicit, expressed, said, stated
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