politic
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
politic
adj 1: marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness;
"it is neither polite nor politic to get into other
people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic
manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and
politic reply" [ant: {impolitic}]
2: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of
sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so
important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer
with a smooth apology for the error" [syn: {politic},
{smooth}, {suave}, {bland}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Politic \Pol"i*tic\, a. [L. politicus political, Gr. ? belonging
to the citizens or to the state, fr.? citizen: cf. F.
politique. See {Police}, and cf. {ePolitical}.]
1. Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government;
political; as, the body politic. See under {Body}.
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He with his people made all but one politic body.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a
national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether
right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty.
"Enrich'd with politic grave counsel." --Shak.
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3. Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and
advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or
system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense,
wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful;
unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.
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Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
--Shak.
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Syn: Wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet; provident; wary;
artful; cunning.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
192 Moby Thesaurus words for "politic":
Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adroit,
advantageous, advisable, appropriate, apt, arch, artful, artistic,
astute, authoritative, becoming, befitting, bravura, brilliant,
cagey, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, civic, clean, clever,
congruous, considerate, convenient, coordinated, crack,
crackerjack, crafty, cunning, cute, daedal, deceitful, decent,
deep, deep-laid, deft, deliberate, delicate, designing, desirable,
dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discreet, discriminating,
discriminative, enlightened, evasive, excellent, expedient, expert,
fancy, favorable, feasible, felicitous, feline, fit, fitten,
fitting, foxy, fructuous, geopolitical, gingerly, good, goodish,
governmental, graceful, guarded, guileful, handy, happy, heedful,
hesitant, ingenious, insidious, intelligent, inventive, judgmatic,
judicial, judicious, knowing, leaving out nothing, likely,
magisterial, masterful, masterly, meet, mindful, neat, no mean,
noncommittal, on guard, opportune, overlooking no possibility,
pawky, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, political,
politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic,
politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military,
politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific,
politico-social, politico-theological, professional, proficient,
profitable, proper, provident, prudent, prudential, quick,
quite some, ready, recommendable, reflecting, reflective,
regardful, resourceful, right, safe, sagacious, sage, scheming,
seasonable, seemly, sensible, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd,
skillful, slick, slippery, slow to act, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky,
some, sophistical, sortable, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic,
stylish, subtile, subtle, suffragist, suitable, supple, tactful,
tactical, tentative, the compleat, the complete, thorough,
thoughtful, timely, to be desired, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising,
unprecipitate, useful, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-advised,
well-done, well-judged, well-timed, wily, wise, workmanlike,
worthwhile
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