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"he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"adjectivesmoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
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"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"adjectivemarked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdnessOpposite:
Definition that contains politic
- center politically moderate persons; centrists
- gandhi political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)
- apolitical politically neutral
- separateness political independence
- agitprop political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema
- realpolitik politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations
- mahatma gandhi political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)
- mohandas karamchand gandhi political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)
- soft money political contributions made in such a way as to avoid the United States regulations for federal election campaigns (as by contributions to a political action committee)
- semipolitical political in some (but not all) aspects