About The Word Politic
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What's The Definition Of Politic?
[adj] smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound
[adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Politic: diplomatic | diplomatical | expedient | sagacious | smooth | suave Related Terms | Find terms related to Politic: 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 | Daedalian | 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 | Machiavellian | Machiavellic | 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 See Also | Politic In Webster's Dictionary \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}.
He with his people made all but one politic body.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
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.
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.
Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
--Shak.
Syn: Wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet; provident; wary;
artful; cunning.
\Pol`i*tic\, n. A politician. [Archaic] --Bacon. Swiftly the politic goes; is it dark? he borrows a lantern; Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his feet by the stars. --Lowell. |
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