Complicit vs Collaborate - What's the difference?
complicit | collaborate |
Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
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To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
As an adjective complicit
is associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.As a verb collaborate is
to work together with others to achieve a common goal.complicit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)p. 203,
- It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit , guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues,
p. 177:
- "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."
Letters," Time , 7 March:
- Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.
Synonyms
* complicitousDerived terms
* complicitlyReferences
* * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.collaborate
English
Verb
(collaborat)- Let's collaborate on this dictionary, and get it finished faster.
- If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.