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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness;
- Example: "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"
- Example: "a politic decision"
- Example: "a politic manager"
- Example: "a politic old scoundrel"
- Example: "a shrewd and politic reply"

2. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication;
- Example: "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"
- Example: "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"
[syn: politic, smooth, suave, bland]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Politic \Pol`i*tic\, n.
   A politician. [Archaic] --Bacon.
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         Swiftly the politic goes; is it dark? he borrows a
         lantern;
         Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his feet by the
         stars.                                   --Lowell.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Politic \Pol"i*tic\, a. [L. politicus political, Gr. ? belonging
   to the citizens or to the state, fr.? citizen: cf. F.
   politique. See Police, and cf. ePolitical.]
   1. Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government;
      political; as, the body politic. See under Body.
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            He with his people made all but one politic body.
                                                  --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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   2. Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a
      national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether
      right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty.
      "Enrich'd with politic grave counsel." --Shak.
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   3. Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and
      advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or
      system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense,
      wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful;
      unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.
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            Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
                                                  --Shak.
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   Syn: Wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet; provident; wary;
        artful; cunning.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

politic
    adj 1: marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness;
           "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other
           people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic
           manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and
           politic reply" [ant: impolitic]
    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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

192 Moby Thesaurus words for "politic":
   Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adroit,
   advantageous, advisable, appropriate, apt, arch, artful, artistic,
   astute, authoritative, becoming, befitting, bravura, brilliant,
   cagey, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, civic, clean, clever,
   congruous, considerate, convenient, coordinated, crack,
   crackerjack, crafty, cunning, cute, daedal, deceitful, decent,
   deep, deep-laid, deft, deliberate, delicate, designing, desirable,
   dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discreet, discriminating,
   discriminative, enlightened, evasive, excellent, expedient, expert,
   fancy, favorable, feasible, felicitous, feline, fit, fitten,
   fitting, foxy, fructuous, geopolitical, gingerly, good, goodish,
   governmental, graceful, guarded, guileful, handy, happy, heedful,
   hesitant, ingenious, insidious, intelligent, inventive, judgmatic,
   judicial, judicious, knowing, leaving out nothing, likely,
   magisterial, masterful, masterly, meet, mindful, neat, no mean,
   noncommittal, on guard, opportune, overlooking no possibility,
   pawky, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, political,
   politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic,
   politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military,
   politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific,
   politico-social, politico-theological, professional, proficient,
   profitable, proper, provident, prudent, prudential, quick,
   quite some, ready, recommendable, reflecting, reflective,
   regardful, resourceful, right, safe, sagacious, sage, scheming,
   seasonable, seemly, sensible, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd,
   skillful, slick, slippery, slow to act, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky,
   some, sophistical, sortable, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic,
   stylish, subtile, subtle, suffragist, suitable, supple, tactful,
   tactical, tentative, the compleat, the complete, thorough,
   thoughtful, timely, to be desired, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
   unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising,
   unprecipitate, useful, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-advised,
   well-done, well-judged, well-timed, wily, wise, workmanlike,
   worthwhile