Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Smoothly agreeable and courteous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Soothingly agreeable; pleasant; mollifying; bland: used of persons or things: as, a suave diplomatist; suave politeness.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
- adj. having a sophisticated charm
Etymologies
- From Latin suāvis ("sweet"). (Wiktionary)
- French, agreeable, from Old French, from Latin suāvis, delightful, sweet; see swād- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I was not s-- you know, I said I was at that age what you call suave”
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“He was known as a suave matinee idol who could be molded to play the lead in any romantic film.”
“Manning is incredibly successful, but he's never going to be called suave, and Matt Ryan is a promising quarterback, but he's going to have to win a playoff game before we start mentioning him among the league's truly elite.”
“He has called the suave Priyanka Gandhi the 'sexiest Indian woman by eons and light years'.”
“For the classic Bond, 'suave', 'nonchalant' and 'English' and what comes to mind.”
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“Who else has the time to generate paragraph of fluff, just in order to rebut Plate's central thesis that Ma is "suave"?”
“The piece is nothing more than a mash-up of Establishment shibboleths, but I especially like his description of the current policy as "suave" ... let's call up Taiwan News again:”
“Im sorry but theres nothing "suave" about this at all!”
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“The Mexican immigrants from my wife's side tell me that credit the key to living "suave" in the US.”
“It calls for sheer pragmatism and a kind of suave touch I don't think McCain has.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘suave’.
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satined, sleek, glossy, legato, uncrannied, suave, smoothen, polish, satiny, flowing, levigate, politic and 78 more...
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Riley's list
Adjectives to describe Riley.
amazing, awesome, smart, nice, modest, genius, intense, the best, great, suave, narcissistic
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my words. my mind. my gosh.
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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sycamore, wipfel, rohlingsspindel, gorgeous, flamboyance, anschmiegen, pengpeng, zuckerhut, revolver, troubleshooter, breeze, dandy and 228 more...
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scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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Words I like
There's nothing more to this list, really.
lily, defenestrate, gloaming, aesthetically, melody, translucent, semiotics, wistful, linear, origami, plethora, schadenfreude and 92 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
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