different between complicit vs agreed

English

Etymology

Back-formation from complicity, most likely, which from French complicité, from complice (“partner, accomplice”), from Latin complex, complicem (“partner”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?s.?t/
• Rhymes: -?s?t

Adjective

complicit (comparative more complicit, superlative most complicit)

1. Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
   • 1973, Angus Wilson, As If by Magic, Secker and Warburg, p. 177:

     "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."

   • 2005, Larry Dennsion, "Letters," Time, 7 March:

     Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.

Synonyms

• complicitous

Derived terms

• complicitly

Related terms

• complicity

Translations

References

• “complicit” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.??i.?d/, /?.??id/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Verb

agreed

1. simple past tense and past participle of agree

Adjective

agreed (comparative more agreed, superlative most agreed)

1. In harmony.

   We are much more agreed on goals than on methods.

   Grammarians are agreed that contact clauses are a paratactic construction of two independent clauses.

Interjection

agreed

1. Indicates agreement on the part of the speaker.

Translations

Anagrams

• Gedera, de-gear, degear, dragee, dragée, e-grade, geared, gradee