DIPLOMATIC Synonyms

• showing careful forethought

• people who are fearful and cautious

• avoiding excess

• heedful of potential consequences

• showing concern for the rights and feelings of others

• characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners

• exhibiting courtesy and politeness

• marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint

• unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

• heedful of potential consequences

• marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

• perfected or made shiny and smooth

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed

• (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

• showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.

• not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others

• marked by refinement in taste and manners

• marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness

• smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel

• freed from impurities by processing

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• precise to a fine degree

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• full of or exhibiting respect

• feeling or manifesting veneration

• responsive to physical stimuli

• being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others

• able to feel or perceive

• someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead

• hurting

• of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security

• having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

• done with delicacy and skill

• having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities

• of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth

• (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected

• of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence

• the act of smoothing

• smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

• smooth and unconstrained in movement

• lacking obstructions or difficulties

• (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

• make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing

• make (a surface) shine

• free from obstructions

• having a sophisticated charm

• smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

• difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

• able to make fine distinctions

• working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

• having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others

• showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people

• marked by skill in deception

• using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people