different between tacit vs insinuate

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)

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nsinu? (“to push in, creep in, steal in”), from in (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?n?s?njue?t/

Verb

insinuate (third-person singular simple present insinuates, present participle insinuating, simple past and past participle insinuated)

1. To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.

   She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.

2. (rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
   • 1728-1729, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     Water will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks

3. (figuratively, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
   • 1995, Terry Pratchett, Maskerade, p. 242

     Nanny didn't so much enter places as insinuate herself; she had unconsciously taken a natural talent for liking people and developed it into an occult science.

   • All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.

   • Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.

   • He […] insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.

   • he insinuated himself into the confidence of one already so forlorn

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:allude

Related terms

• insinuation
• insinuator
• sinuous

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• annuities

Italian

Verb

insinuate

1. second-person plural present indicative of insinuare
2. second-person plural imperative of insinuare
3. feminine plural of insinuato

Latin

Verb

?nsinu?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?nsinu?