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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Smoothly agreeable and courteous.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Soothingly agreeable; pleasant; mollifying; bland: used of persons or things: as, a suave diplomatist; suave politeness.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Charming, confident and elegant.
  2. n. Sweet talk.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
  2. adj. having a sophisticated charm

Etymologies

  1. French, agreeable, from Old French, from Latin suāvis, delightful, sweet; see swād- in Indo-European roots.

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