Tact
[tækt]
Definition
(noun.) consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense.
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Definition
(n.) The sense of touch; feeling.
(n.) The stroke in beating time.
(n.) Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. [Rare.] Touch, feeling, sense of feeling.[2]. Adroitness (in appreciating circumstances and acting accordingly), skill (in saying or doing what is most appropriate to the occasion), quick judgment, nice perception.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Nicety, perception, address, adroitness, expertness, faculty, knack, dexterity,sensitiveness, skill, taste, discrimination, judgment, critique
ANT:Coarseness, insensitiveness, awkwardness, indiscrimination, indiscretion
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Definition
n. adroitness in managing the feelings of persons dealt with: nice perception in seeing and doing exactly what is best in the circumstances: (mus.) the stroke in keeping time.—adjs. Tact′ful; Tac′tile that may be touched or felt.—ns. Tactil′ity state of being tactile: touchiness; Tac′tion act of touching: sense of touch.—adj. Tact′less without tact.—n. Tact′lessness.—adj. Tact′ūal relating to or derived from the sense of touch.—adv. Tact′ūally.—n. Tact′us the sense of touch.
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Examples
- Have you the tact? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Even what she read and said seemed to us to be ill-chosen for such auditors, if it had been imparted ever so modestly and with ever so much tact. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Has the theory of the solar system been advanced by graceful manners and conversational tact? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now that was tact, for two of the ruling foibles of the masculine mind were touched. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Olly, though without the tact to perceive when remarks were untimely, was saved by her very simplicity from rendering them offensive. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- South as well as north, there are women who have an extraordinary talent for command, and tact in educating. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A woman's tact is invaluable. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His tact and taste were never at fault on this or on any other occasion while I was in his company at Limmeridge House. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Coffee was a treat, and Hannah showed great tact in making it that morning. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Cassy, therefore, with woman's tact, touched the only string that could be made to vibrate. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Employ tact and neatness, and you will be surprised at the result. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- With perfect tact, he contrived to answer us at the same moment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The young man rode a very fine horse and appeared to manage him with tact and spirit. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She was weak and wavering; she had neither tact nor intelligence, decision nor dignity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Having distributed these little specimens of his tact, Mr. Bucket rubs his hands. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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