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suave
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective suave has 2 senses
- suave(s = adj.all) debonair, debonaire, debonnaire - having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman" Derived form noun suaveness1
- suave(s = adj.all) bland, politic, smooth - 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" Derived forms noun suaveness1, noun suavity1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
suave, adj.
1 (of a person, esp. a man) smooth; polite; sophisticated.
2 (of a wine etc.) bland, smooth.
1 (of a person, esp. a man) smooth; polite; sophisticated.
2 (of a wine etc.) bland, smooth.
Derivative
suavely adv. suaveness n. suavity n. (pl. -ies).
Etymology
F suave or L suavis agreeable: cf. SWEET
THESAURUS
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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