Meaning of POLITIC
| Pronunciation: | | 'pâlitik
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | diplomatic, diplomatical, expedient, sagacious, smooth, suave |
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| | Antonyms: | | impolitic | | |
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\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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