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
- French, agreeable, from Old French, from Latin suāvis, delightful, sweet; see swād- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“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.”
“For the classic Bond, 'suave', 'nonchalant' and 'English' and what comes to mind.”
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“Im sorry but theres nothing "suave" about this at all!”
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“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:”
“Who else has the time to generate paragraph of fluff, just in order to rebut Plate's central thesis that Ma is "suave"?”
“It calls for sheer pragmatism and a kind of suave touch I don't think McCain has.”
“The Mexican immigrants from my wife's side tell me that credit the key to living "suave" in the US.”
“The court heard the prince lived the life of a "suave" aristocrat, dispensing £50 tips as he and his aide visited fashionable bars and restaurants and indulged in shopping trips.”
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“Lane was suave as Mike Todd, Behar nasal as a hotel operator, with Feldshuh as a most glamorous Liz.”
“And that is period writing--modern females fall for suave admen, poets, and crooks with a heart of gold.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘suave’.
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((Eye)) CBS = I See B.S.
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joy, dodge, ram, monster, coke, snuggle, gateway, ivory, life, subway, crunch, crest and 151 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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smoooth
satined, sleek, glossy, legato, uncrannied, suave, smoothen, polish, satiny, flowing, levigate, politic and 77 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 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, cyclorama, calculus, saddlery, maisonette and 396 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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From Book - SAT & College Dictionary Workbook
ebb, exotic, immure, abeyance, panegyric, debonair, protege, dissipate, frantic, penitent, abject, edify and 871 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 91 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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words
my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2536 more...
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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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roseandivy's list
mooncalf, wonted, gibbet, artless, noontide, blithe, glitterati, vorpal, soporific, moxie, pilfer, betwixt and between and 263 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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BuffaloBen's Words
sycamore, wipfel, rohlingsspindel, gorgeous, flamboyance, anschmiegen, pengpeng, zuckerhut, revolver, troubleshooter, breeze, dandy and 228 more...


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