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politic
Overview of adj politic
The adj politic has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) politic -- (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")
2. politic, smooth, suave, bland -- (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)
Grep of noun politic
body politic
political action committee
political arena
political boss
political campaign
political commissar
political contribution
political correctitude
political correctness
political detainee
political dissident
political donation
political economy
political entity
political hack
political incorrectness
political leader
political liberty
political machine
political movement
political orientation
political party
political platform
political prisoner
political program
political relation
political science
political scientist
political sphere
political sympathies
political system
political theory
political unit
politician
politico
politics
Grep of verb politic
politicise
politicize
politick
Antonyms of adj politic
2 senses of politic
Sense 1
politic (vs. impolitic)
impolitic (vs. politic)
=> inexpedient, unwise
Sense 2
politic, smooth, suave, bland
INDIRECT (VIA diplomatic) -> undiplomatic
Similarity of adj politic
2 senses of politic
Sense 1
politic (vs. impolitic)
=> expedient
=> sagacious
Also See> diplomatic#2, diplomatical#1
Sense 2
politic, smooth, suave, bland
=> diplomatic (vs. undiplomatic), diplomatical
Pertainyms of adj politic
Attributes of adj politic
Domain of adj politic
Domain Terms of adj politic
Familiarity of adj politic
politic used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj politic
impolitic
politic
political
politically correct
politically incorrect
Grep of adv politic
politically
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