Another word for diplomatic
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Adjective
Showing sensitivity and skill in dealing with others
- Possessing or exhibiting tact; considerate and discreet:
- Capable of perceiving with a sense or senses:
- Responsive to external conditions or stimulation; having sensation:
- Susceptible to slight differences or changes in the environment:
- Showing sound or pragmatic judgment; prudent; judicious:
- Possessed of, exercising, or showing prudence and self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect:
- Made, done, or situated so as to attract little notice:
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
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Another word for diplomatic
Modifier
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- Wary; careful:
- Crafty; shrewd:
- Well informed and perceptive; shrewd:
- Knowledgeable or proficient. Often used in combination:
- Practical understanding or shrewdness:
- Of or pertaining to a consul, or the office thereof.
- Of or pertaining to an ambassador.
- Like a statesman, demonstrating the skills and qualities of a respected leader.
- Having or showing shrewdness and discernment, especially with respect to one's own concerns.
- Of or relating to strategy.
- Important or essential in relation to a plan of action:
- Essential to the effective conduct of war:
- exciting interest or curiosity; fascinating
- Very skilled or accomplished.
- A highly skilled person; an expert:
- Skillful in the use of the hands.
- Having mental skill or adroitness.
- Done with dexterity:
- Quick and skillful; adroit.
- Capable of perceiving with a sense or senses:
- Responsive to external conditions or stimulation; having sensation:
- Susceptible to slight differences or changes in the environment:
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
- Present participle of contrive.
- The act of one who contrives.
- Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.
- Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
- Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute:
- Having a thin edge or a fine point suitable for or capable of cutting or piercing.
- Having clear form and detail:
- Terminating in an edge or a point:
- Skilled in or marked by underhandedness, deviousness, or deception.
- Skillful; dexterous.
- So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive:
- Difficult to understand; abstruse:
- Able to make fine distinctions:
- Full of wiles; cunning.
- Exhibiting art or skill:
- Skillful in accomplishing a purpose, especially by the use of cunning or craft.
- Artificial.
- Clever or cunning, especially in the practice of deceit.
- Stealthy or surreptitious:
- Playfully mischievous:
- Of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism.
- Suggestive of or characterized by expediency, deceit, and cunning.
- given to forming schemes or plots; crafty, tricky, deceitful, etc.
- Present participle of connive.
- That connives; conspiratorial
- tending to conciliate or reconcile
- Having or exhibiting sound judgment; prudent.
- Quick and skillful in body or mind; deft.
- Serving, tending, or having the power to manipulate.
- Any of various objects designed to be moved or arranged by hand as a means of developing motor skills or understanding abstractions, especially in mathematics.
- Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit.
- Having a surface free from irregularities, roughness, or projections; even.
- Free from waves or disturbances; calm:
- Free from hair, whiskers, or stubble:
- Having or showing a clever awareness or resourcefulness, especially in practical matters.
- Disposed to or marked by artful and cunning practices; tricky.
- Sharp; penetrating:
- Capable of performing calculations:
- Shrewd; crafty:
- Coldly scheming or conniving.
- Possessed of, exercising, or showing prudence and self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect:
- Made, done, or situated so as to attract little notice:
- Showing sound or pragmatic judgment; prudent; judicious:
- Courteous and elegant; gracious and sophisticated.
- Possessing or exhibiting tact; considerate and discreet:
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