good taste

Main Entry:
acumen [uh-kyoo-muhn, ak-yuh-]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ability to understand and reason
Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit
Notes: acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays
Antonyms: denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity
Main Entry: culture
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: breeding, education, sophistication
Synonyms: ability, accomplishment, address, aestheticism, art, capacity, civilization, class, courtesy, cultivation, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, dress, elegance, elevation, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fashion, finish, gentility, good taste, grace, improvement, kindness, learning, manners, nobility, perception, polish, politeness, practice, proficiency, refinement, savoir-faire, science, skill, tact, training, urbanity
Notes: culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure
Main Entry: elegance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cultivated beauty, taste
Synonyms: breeding, charm, class, courtliness, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, exquisiteness, felicity, gentility, good taste, grace, gracefulness, grandeur, hauteur, lushness, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, noblesse, ornateness, polish, politeness, poshness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, sumptuousness, symmetry, tastefulness
Antonyms: crudeness, inelegance, poor taste, roughness, ugliness
Main Entry: tact
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: finesse, thoughtfulness
Synonyms: acumen, acuteness, address, adroitness, amenity, aptness, care, common sense, consideration, control, courtesy, delicacy, delicatesse, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, gallantry, good taste, head, horse sense, intelligence, judgment, penetration, perception, perspicacity, poise, policy, politicness, presence, prudence, refinement, repose, savoir faire, sensitivity, skill, smoothness, suavity, subtlety, tactfulness, understanding, urbanity
Antonyms: carelessness, indiscretion, tactlessness, thoughtlessness
Main Entry: taste
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: judgment, propriety
Synonyms: acumen, acuteness, aestheticism, appreciation, correctness, cultivation, culture, decorum, delicacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, distinction, elegance, feeling, finesse, good taste, grace, nicety, penetration, perception, polish, politeness, refinement, restraint, style, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, tastefulness
Main Entry: kid gloves
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tact and gentleness
Synonyms: delicacy, fastidiousness, gentle handling, gentleness, good taste, kid-glove treatment, leniency, light hand, light rein, refinement, tact, tolerance, velvet glove
Main Entry: tactfulness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tact
Synonyms: acumen, acuteness, address, adroitness, amenity, aptness, care, common sense, consideration, control, courtesy, delicacy, delicatesse, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, gallantry, good taste, head, horse sense, intelligence, judgment, penetration, perception, perspicacity, poise, policy, politicness, presence, prudence, refinement, repose, savoir faire, savoir-faire, sensitivity, skill, smoothness, suavity, subtlety, understanding, urbanity
Main Entry: urbanity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: elegance
Synonyms: breeding, charm, class, courtliness, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, elegancy, exquisiteness, felicity, gentility, good taste, grace, gracefulness, grandeur, hauteur, lushness, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, noblesse, ornateness, polish, politeness, poshness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, sumptuousness, symmetry, tastefulness
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Main Entry: culture
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
ambosexual, androgynous, anthropoid, antiethnic, civic, congeneric, consanguine, cosmopolitan, deivirile, ecdemic, epicene, ethnic, ethnocentric, ethnological, genealogical, gynaecocoenic, historic, historical, homophylic, human, individual, infra, mortal, national, neanthropic, nonliterate, paleoanthropic, personal, pithecological, polyphyletic, preliterate, primitive, prosopoeic, public, simian, social, sociocultural, sociological, xanthous
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