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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caution, judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, attention, calculation, canniness, care, carefulness, chariness, circumspection, concern, considerateness, consideration, deliberation, diplomacy, discernment, discrimination, foresight, forethought, good sense, gumption, heed, heedfulness, judiciousness, maturity, observation, perspicacity, precaution, presence of mind, providence, prudence, responsibility, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, vigilance, wariness, warning, watchfulness, wisdom |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | caution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alertness, carefulness |
| Synonyms: | Fabian policy, attention, canniness, care, circumspection, deliberation, discreetness, discretion, foresight, forethought, heed, heedfulness, providence, prudence, vigilance, watchfulness |
| Antonyms: | heedlessness, imprudence, indiscretion, neglect, negligence, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | choice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to select; selection |
| Synonyms: | alternative, appraisal, choosing, cull, cup of tea, decision, determination, discretion, discrimination, distinction, druthers, election, evaluation, extract, favorite, finding, free will, judgment, opportunity, option, pick, preference, rating, say, substitute, variety, verdict, volition, vote, weakness |
Example Sentences
- The old conundrums around discretion seemed technologically obsolete.
- Younger children will be admitted at the discretion of the staff.
- Instead, you have been trusted to use your discretion.
| Main Entry: | diplomacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tact |
| Synonyms: | address, artfulness, craft, delicacy, delicatesse, discretion, expedience, finesse, negotiation, poise, politics, savoir-faire, skill, statecraft, subtlety |
| Antonyms: | bad manners, impoliteness, rudeness |
| Main Entry: | distinction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | differentiation; feature |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, alterity, analysis, characteristic, clearness, contrast, diagnosis, difference, differential, discernment, discrepancy, discreteness, discretion, discrimination, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divergence, divergency, division, earmark, estimation, individuality, judgment, mark, marking, nicety, otherness, particularity, peculiarity, penetration, perception, qualification, quality, refinement, sensitivity, separation, sharpness, tact, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | finesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | know-how, maneuver |
| Synonyms: | acumen, adeptness, adroitness, artfulness, artifice, big stick, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, craftiness, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket, run-around, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | foresight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental preparedness |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, canniness, care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, clairvoyance, discernment, discreetness, discretion, economy, far-sightedness, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, long-sightedness, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prenotion, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity |
| Antonyms: | hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | forethought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental preparedness |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, canniness, caution, deliberation, discreetness, discretion, far-sightedness, foresight, gumption, judgment, planning, precaution, premeditation, providence, provision, prudence, sense |
| Antonyms: | hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness |
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