Another word for tactful
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Adjective
Showing sensitivity and skill in dealing with others
- 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:
- Of, relating to, or involving diplomacy or diplomats.
- Using or marked by tact and sensitivity in dealing with others.
- Of or relating to diplomatics.
- Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way:
- Easily broken or damaged:
- Exquisitely fine or dainty:
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Another word for tactful
Modifier
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- Careful or wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense:
- Characterized by or resulting from care or wisdom in practical matters or in planning for the future:
- Attentive to potential danger, error, or harm; cautious:
- Thorough and painstaking in action or execution; conscientious:
- Protective; solicitous:
- Showing or practicing caution; careful.
- Tentative or restrained; guarded:
- Having the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; sagacious:
- Exhibiting common sense; prudent:
- Shrewd; crafty:
- Considerate or kindly in disposition; amiable and tender.
- Not harsh or severe; mild and soft:
- Easily managed or handled; docile:
- Having knowledge or discernment of something:
- Attentive and well informed:
- Vigilant; watchful.
- Having or showing keen perceptiveness; perceptive:
- Diligent in observing a law, custom, duty, or principle:
- Assured; composed.
- Held balanced or steady in readiness:
- Quick and skillful in body or mind; deft.
- The ability by which one understands; intelligence:
- The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension:
- Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion:
- Of, expressing, feeling, or resulting from sympathy:
- Favorably inclined:
- Agreeably suited to one's disposition or mood; congenial:
- Of or relating to perception:
- Having the ability to perceive; keen in discernment.
- Marked by discernment and understanding; sensitive.
- Made shiny and smooth by rubbing or chemical action.
- Naturally shiny and smooth.
- Having the husk or outer layers removed. Used of grains of rice.
- Characterized by gracious consideration toward others.
- Having or showing regard for the needs or feelings of others.
- Characterized by careful thought; deliberate.
- Of, relating to, or befitting a citizen or citizens:
- Of or relating to citizens and their interrelations with one another or with the state:
- Of ordinary citizens or ordinary community life as distinguished from the military or the ecclesiastical:
- Of, relating to, or involving diplomacy or diplomats.
- Using or marked by tact and sensitivity in dealing with others.
- Of or relating to diplomatics.
- Showing sound or pragmatic judgment; prudent; judicious:
- Courteous and elegant; gracious and sophisticated.
- Polite, refined, and often elegant in manner.
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