Tactful

3 definitions found

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

  Tactful \Tact"ful\, a.
     Full of tact; characterized by a discerning sense of what is
     right, proper, or judicious.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Tactic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tactful
       adj 1: having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate
              in dealing with others; "she was tactful enough not to
              shatter his illusion"; "a tactful remark eased her
              embarrassment" [ant: {tactless}]
       2: showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people; "by
          diplomatic conduct he avoided antagonizing anyone"; "a
          tactful way of correcting someone"; "the agency got the
          kid-glove treatment on Capitol Hill" [syn: {kid-glove}]

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

  133 Moby Thesaurus words for "tactful":
     Daedalian, accommodating, accommodative, accurate, acute, adept,
     adroit, affable, agreeable, allergic, anaphylactic, appreciative,
     apt, artistic, attentive, authoritative, bravura, brilliant,
     careful, civil, clean, clever, complaisant, considerate,
     coordinated, courteous, crack, crackerjack, critical, cunning,
     cute, daedal, deferential, deft, delicate, dexterous, dextrous,
     differential, diplomatic, discerning, discreet, discriminate,
     discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing,
     empathetic, empathic, exact, excellent, expert, fair, fancy,
     fastidious, fine, good, goodish, goosy, graceful, gracious, handy,
     heedful, helpful, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive,
     indulgent, ingenious, irritable, itchy, judicious, lenient,
     magisterial, masterful, masterly, mindful, mindful of others, neat,
     nervous, nice, no mean, obliging, overrefined, oversensible,
     oversensitive, overtender, passible, perceptive, polished, polite,
     politic, precise, prickly, professional, proficient, prudent,
     quick, quite some, ready, refined, regardful, resourceful,
     respectful, responsive, selective, sensitive, skilled, skillful,
     skittish, slick, solicitous, some, statesmanlike, stylish, suave,
     subtle, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactical, tender, tetchy,
     the compleat, the complete, thin-skinned, thoughtful, ticklish,
     tolerant, touchy, understanding, urbane, virtuoso, well-done,
     workmanlike