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for Suave
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Suave \Suave\, a. [L. suavis sweet, pleasant: cf. F. suave. See
Sweet, and cf. Suasion.]
Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner;
bland. -- Suave"ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
suave
adj 1: having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
[syn: debonair, debonaire, debonnaire, suave]
2: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of
sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so
important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer
with a smooth apology for the error" [syn: politic,
smooth, suave, bland]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "suave":
affable, agreeable, bland, buttery, charming, civilized, cordial,
cosmopolitan, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, debonair,
diplomatic, disarming, distingue, downy, even, fair-spoken,
fine-spoken, flat, fulsome, genial, glabrate, glabrescent,
glabrous, glib, gracious, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued,
ingratiating, leiotrichous, level, nonchalant, oily, oily-tongued,
plane, polished, polite, politic, refined, regular, slick, smooth,
smooth-shaven, smooth-spoken, smooth-textured, smooth-tongued,
smug, soapy, sociable, soft, soft-spoken, sophisticated,
suave-spoken, unbroken, unctuous, uniform, unrough, unroughened,
unruffled, urbane, well-bred, worldly
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