different between closemouthed vs tacit

English

Etymology

close +? mouthed

Adjective

closemouthed (comparative more closemouthed, superlative most closemouthed)

1. reticent, secretive or uncommunicative
   • 1852 James Fenimore Cooper - Home as found

     As much so as possible; they have hardly a way that you would like, my dear ma'am; and are as closemouthed as if they were afraid of committing themselves.

   • 2001 C. R. Anderegg - Sierra Hotel: flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam

     Instructors were notoriously closemouthed about their gunnery techniques.

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from late Middle French tacite, or from Latin tacitus (“that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent”), from tacere (“to be silent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæs?t/
• Rhymes: -æs?t
• Homophones: tacet, tasset

Adjective

tacit (comparative more tacit, superlative most tacit)

1. Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.

   tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection

   • 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, page 62:

     He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.

   • 2004, Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, Vivien Lowndes; ?ISBN:

     […] disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions and processes, especially among young people, […]

2. (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

Derived terms

• tacitly
• tacitness

Related terms

• tacet
• taciturn
• taciturnity
• taciturnly

Translations

Further reading

• tacit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tacit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tacit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Attic, attic, ticat

Romanian

Etymology

From French tacite, from Latin tacitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?t??it/

Adjective

tacit m or n (feminine singular tacit?, masculine plural taci?i, feminine and neuter plural tacite)

1. unspoken

Declension

Further reading

• tacit in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)