Suave

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suave \Suave\, a. [L. suavis sweet, pleasant: cf. F. suave. See
     {Sweet}, and cf. {Suasion}.]
     Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner;
     bland. -- {Suave"ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  suave
       adj 1: having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman" [syn: {debonair},
               {debonaire}, {debonnaire}]
       2: 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 [syn: {politic}, {smooth}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "suave":
     affable, agreeable, bland, buttery, charming, civilized, cordial,
     cosmopolitan, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, debonair,
     diplomatic, disarming, distingue, downy, even, fair-spoken,
     fine-spoken, flat, fulsome, genial, glabrate, glabrescent,
     glabrous, glib, gracious, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued,
     ingratiating, leiotrichous, level, nonchalant, oily, oily-tongued,
     plane, polished, polite, politic, refined, regular, slick, smooth,
     smooth-shaven, smooth-spoken, smooth-textured, smooth-tongued,
     smug, soapy, sociable, soft, soft-spoken, sophisticated,
     suave-spoken, unbroken, unctuous, uniform, unrough, unroughened,
     unruffled, urbane, well-bred, worldly