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TACT DEFINITIONS - 12 definitions found


Websters 1828 Dictionary

Tact TACT, n. [L. tactus, from tango, [for tago,] to touch.]
1. Touch; feeling; formerly, the stroke in beating time in music.
2. Peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment.


WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)

tact n 1: consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense [syn: tact, tactfulness] [ant: tactlessness]




Dictionary of Ro

tact - fegur

Anagrams

tact catt

English Etymology Dictionary

tact 1651, "sense of touch or feeling," from L. tactus "touch, feeling, handling, sense of touch," from root of tangere "to touch." Meaning "sense of "discernment, diplomacy, etc." first recorded c.1805, from Fr. tact, from L. tactus.

Oxford English Reference Dictionary

tact
n.
1 adroitness in dealing with others or with difficulties arising from personal feeling.
2 intuitive perception of the right thing to do or say.
Etymology: F f. L tactus touch, sense of touch f. tangere tact- touch


Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary

tact Tact is the ability to avoid upsetting or offending people by being careful not to say or do things that would hurt their feelings. On this occasion the press have not been intrusive and they have shown great tact. = diplomacy N-UNCOUNT

English Explanatory Dictionary

tact tækt n. 1 adroitness in dealing with others or with difficulties arising from personal feeling. 2 intuitive perception of the right thing to do or say. [F f. L tactus touch, sense of touch f. tangere tact- touch]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tact \Tact\, n. [L. tactus a touching, touch, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch: cf. F. tact. See Tangent.] 1. The sense of touch; feeling. Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight? --Southey. Now, sight is a very refined tact. --J. Le Conte. 2. (Mus.) The stroke in beating time. 3. Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances. He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin. --Macaulay. A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her sex surpassed the tact of ours. --Macaulay.

Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms

tact n. 1. (Rare.) Touch, feeling, taction, 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, cleverness, dexterity, knack, savoir faire.

English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms)

tact tækt n. discretion, diplomacy, sensitivity, savoir faire, judgement, politesse, delicacy, finesse, cleverness, prudence, care, carefulness, dexterity, dexterousness, discernment, judiciousness, adroitness, skill, acumen, acuteness, perception, understanding, consideration, thoughtfulness, politeness: You can count on Robert to handle such matters with consummate tact.

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

175 Moby Thesaurus words for "tact": ability, accommodatingness, acumen, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, agreeableness, airmanship, allergy, amenity, anaphylaxis, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, artfulness, artisanship, artistic judgment, artistry, attentiveness, bravura, brilliance, capability, capacity, care, carefulness, civility, cleverness, comity, command, competence, complaisance, concern, connoisseurship, considerateness, consideration, control, coordination, courteousness, courtesy, craft, craftsmanship, critical niceness, criticalness, cunning, deference, deftness, delicacy, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, efficiency, empathy, expertise, exquisiteness, facility, fastidiousness, feel, feeling, fine palate, fineness, finesse, gallantry, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, grip, handiness, head, heedfulness, helpfulness, horsemanship, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification, indulgence, ingeniousness, ingenuity, irritability, judgement, judiciousness, know-how, leniency, making distinctions, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mindfulness, nervousness, niceness of distinction, nicety, obligingness, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, palate, passibility, perception, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, poise, policy, politeness, politesse, politicness, practical ability, presence, prickliness, proficiency, prowess, prudence, quickness, readiness, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, regard, regardfulness, repose, resource, resourcefulness, respect, respectfulness, responsiveness, savoir faire, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, selectiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, skill, skillfulness, smoothness, solicitousness, solicitude, soreness, style, suavity, subtlety, supersensitivity, sympathy, tactfulness, taste, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tenderness, tetchiness, thin skin, thought, thoughtfulness, ticklishness, timing, toleration, touchiness, understanding, urbanity, virtuosity, wit, wizardry, workmanship


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