Entry Word: tactful

Function: adjective

Meaning: having or showing tact <Allie tried to be tactful when asked to comment on the short story that a classmate had written>

Synonyms diplomatic

Related Words considerate, courteous, delicate, gracious, thoughtful; civil, mannerly, polite; charming, gallant, genteel, suave; deferential, regardful, respectful

Near Antonyms discourteous, inconsiderate, indelicate, thoughtless, ungracious, unthoughtful; ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, uncivil, unmannerly; boorish, brash, brassy, loutish; disregardful, disrespectful, impertinent, impudent, insolent, rude

Antonyms tactless, undiplomatic