tactful

[takt-fuhl] / ˈtækt fəl /

ADJECTIVE

thoughtful, careful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

courteous discreet judicious perceptive polite prudent

WEAK

adroit aware cautious civil considerate deft delicate diplomatic gentle observant poised polished politic sensitive skilled skillful suave subtle sympathetic tactical understanding urbane wise

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless foolish impolite incautious reckless rude thoughtless uncivil unmannerly unrefined unwise

WEAK

indiscreet tactless unthoughtful

Example Sentences

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Mark Mitchener will be your host. Thanks for all your texts, emails and everything else, time for me to sink my head in a vatful of hummous...Bye.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2011

The next forenoon was passed boiling down a second vatful.

From Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

The battery is kept up by adding every eight days a few thousandths of hydrochloric acid to a vatful of the spirits under treatment, say 5 kilos. of acid to 150 hectoliters of spirits.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various

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