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tactful

adj
/ˈtæktfəl/

Etymology

From tact + -ful.

  1. derived from tāctus
  2. borrowed from tact
  3. suffixed as tactful — “tact + ful”

Definitions

  1. Possessing tact

    Possessing tact; able to deal with people in a sensitive manner.

    • His exhortations to his assistants to waste no time in getting on with the job, and to be tactful and courteous with those outside the railway service with whom they had to deal, are as apposite today as they were a century ago.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tactful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tactful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at tactful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA