Related Words:
- tactful
collapse - showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people; "by diplomatic conduct he avoided antagonizing anyone"; "a tactful way of correcting someone"; "the agency got the kid-glove treatment on Capitol Hill"
- having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "she was tactful enough not to shatter his illusion"; "a tactful remark eased her embarrassment" related words >
- Daedalian,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- accurate,
- acute,
- adept,
- adroit,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- appreciative,
- apt,
- artistic,
- attentive,
- authoritative,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- careful,
- civil,
- clean,
- clever,
- complaisant,
- considerate,
- coordinated,
- courteous,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- critical,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deferential,
- deft,
- delicate,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- differential,
- diplomatic,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- exact,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fair,
- fancy,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- good,
- goodish,
- goosy,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- handy,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- indulgent,
- ingenious,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- judicious,
- lenient,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- neat,
- nervous,
- nice,
- no mean,
- obliging,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- perceptive,
- polished,
- polite,
- politic,
- precise,
- prickly,
- professional,
- proficient,
- prudent,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- refined,
- regardful,
- resourceful,
- respectful,
- responsive,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- skilled,
- skillful,
- skittish,
- slick,
- solicitous,
- some,
- statesmanlike,
- stylish,
- suave,
- subtle,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactical,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- thin-skinned,
- thoughtful,
- ticklish,
- tolerant,
- touchy,
- understanding,
- urbane,
- virtuoso,
- well-done,
- workmanlike
- abulic,
- accessible,
- adaptable,
- afraid,
- amenable,
- appliable,
- applicable,
- apt,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bendy,
- biddable,
- bright,
- clever,
- compliant,
- convenient,
- cowardly,
- creased,
- crimped,
- docile,
- dog-eared,
- doubled,
- ductile,
- educable,
- elastic,
- exploitable,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- feasible,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- flounced,
- fluted,
- foldable,
- folded,
- folding,
- foolproof,
- formable,
- formative,
- frail,
- gathered,
- giving,
- handy,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- infirm,
- influenceable,
- instructable,
- intelligent,
- invertebrate,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- maneuverable,
- manipulable,
- manipulatable,
- moldable,
- motivated,
- movable,
- open,
- open-minded,
- operable,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- pervious,
- plaited,
- plastic,
- pleated,
- pliant,
- plicate,
- plicated,
- plicatile,
- practical,
- quick,
- quilled,
- ready,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- reusable,
- ripe for instruction,
- ruffled,
- schoolable,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- spineless,
- springy,
- suasible,
- submissive,
- suggestible,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- swayable,
- teachable,
- thirsty for knowledge,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trainable,
- tucked,
- twilled,
- untroublesome,
- usable,
- utilizable,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- whippy,
- wieldable,
- wieldy,
- willing,
- willowy,
- workable,
- yielding
- susceptible
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- (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"
- easily impressed emotionally related words >
- accessible,
- adaptable,
- affected,
- alive to,
- amenable,
- answerable for,
- apt,
- apt to,
- aroused,
- aware,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bright,
- capable of,
- clever,
- cognizant,
- compliant,
- conscious,
- delicate,
- dependent on,
- disposed,
- docile,
- ductile,
- educable,
- elastic,
- emotionable,
- exposed,
- exposed to,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- giving,
- gullible,
- impressed,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- impressive,
- in danger of,
- incident to,
- inclined,
- influenceable,
- influenced,
- instructable,
- intelligent,
- liable,
- liable to,
- like putty,
- likely to,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- moldable,
- motivated,
- movable,
- naive,
- naked,
- naked to,
- nonimmune,
- nonresistant,
- obliged to,
- obnoxious,
- open,
- open to,
- open-minded,
- passible,
- perceptive,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- pervious,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- predisposed,
- prone,
- prone to,
- quick,
- ready,
- ready for,
- receptive,
- responsible for,
- responsive,
- ripe for instruction,
- roused,
- schoolable,
- sensible,
- sensile,
- sensitive,
- sensitive to,
- sentient,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- soft,
- softhearted,
- springy,
- standing to,
- stirred,
- suasible,
- subject,
- subject to,
- submissive,
- suggestible,
- supple,
- susceptive,
- susceptive to,
- swayable,
- swayed,
- sympathetic,
- teachable,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- thirsty for knowledge,
- touched,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trainable,
- warmhearted,
- weak,
- whippy,
- willing,
- willowy,
- within range of,
- yielding
- irritable
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- abnormally sensitive to a stimulus related words >
- aggressive,
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- apprehensive,
- bad-tempered,
- bearish,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bitchy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- combative,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- delicate,
- disagreeable,
- disputatious,
- divisive,
- dyspeptic,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eristic,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- factional,
- factious,
- fearful,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- frightened,
- goosy,
- grouchy,
- gruff,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- ill-humored,
- ill-tempered,
- impatient,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- itchy,
- litigious,
- mean,
- mettlesome,
- moody,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- ornery,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- overtender,
- panicky,
- partisan,
- passible,
- peevish,
- perturbable,
- perverse,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- pindling,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- prickly,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- querulous,
- raspy,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- short-tempered,
- shrewish,
- skittish,
- snappish,
- snappy,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- startlish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- temperamental,
- tender,
- testy,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- ugly,
- uneasy,
- volcanic,
- waspish,
- whiny,
- wrangling
- prone
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- lying face downward
- having a tendency (to); often used in combination; "a child prone to mischief"; "failure-prone" related words >
- accumbent,
- acquiescent,
- agreeable,
- alacritous,
- amenable,
- answerable for,
- apt,
- apt to,
- ardent,
- bent,
- calculated to,
- capable of,
- compliant,
- consenting,
- content,
- cooperative,
- couchant,
- couche,
- crawling,
- crouched,
- crouching,
- debased,
- decumbent,
- deferential,
- dependent on,
- depressed,
- disposed,
- disposed to,
- dispositioned,
- docile,
- draped,
- eager,
- enthusiastic,
- exposed,
- exposed to,
- fain,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- flat,
- forward,
- game,
- given,
- given to,
- groveling,
- horizontal,
- in danger of,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- incident to,
- inclined,
- inclined to,
- knee-high,
- knocked flat,
- laid low,
- leaning,
- level,
- liable,
- liable to,
- likely,
- likely to,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- low,
- low-built,
- low-hung,
- low-level,
- low-leveled,
- low-lying,
- low-set,
- low-statured,
- lying,
- lying down,
- minded,
- minded to,
- naked to,
- neap,
- obeisant,
- obliged to,
- obnoxious,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- open,
- open to,
- pliant,
- predisposed,
- predisposed to,
- procumbent,
- prompt,
- prone to,
- prostrate,
- quick,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- ready for,
- ready to,
- receptive,
- reclining,
- recumbent,
- reposing,
- responsible for,
- responsive,
- resupine,
- runty,
- sensitive,
- servile,
- short,
- sprawled,
- sprawling,
- spread,
- squat,
- squatty,
- standing to,
- stooped,
- stumpy,
- subject,
- subject to,
- subservient,
- supine,
- susceptible,
- susceptive to,
- tending,
- tractable,
- unelevated,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- within range of,
- zealous
- skittish
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- unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) related words >
- agitable,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- animated,
- antic,
- bashful,
- capersome,
- changeable,
- coltish,
- combustible,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coquettish,
- cowardly,
- coy,
- delicate,
- demure,
- diffident,
- dizzy,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- empty-headed,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- exuberant,
- faddish,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- fickle,
- flighty,
- flirtatious,
- frisky,
- frivolous,
- frolicsome,
- full of beans,
- gamesome,
- gay,
- giddy,
- goosy,
- harebrained,
- hearty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- inconstant,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irresponsible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jumpy,
- light,
- light-headed,
- lively,
- mercurial,
- mettlesome,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- perturbable,
- playful,
- prickly,
- quicksilver,
- rabbity,
- rattlebrained,
- refined,
- responsive,
- restive,
- rollicking,
- rollicksome,
- rompish,
- scary,
- scatterbrained,
- self-conscious,
- sensitive,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- spirited,
- sportive,
- sprightly,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- timid,
- timorous,
- touchy,
- toying,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- undependable,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- vacillating,
- versatile,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- zestful,
- zippy
- about,
- abutting,
- adjoining,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- against,
- anent,
- apropos of,
- as for,
- as regards,
- as respects,
- as to,
- attouchement,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bordering,
- borrowing,
- brush,
- brushing,
- caress,
- caressing,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- compassionate,
- concerning,
- contact,
- contacting,
- conterminous,
- contiguous,
- contingence,
- contingent,
- debt,
- debtor,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- emotional,
- emotive,
- feeling,
- financing,
- fingering,
- friction,
- frottage,
- glance,
- glancing,
- graze,
- grazing,
- grievous,
- handling,
- heartrending,
- hire purchase,
- hitting,
- hitting-up,
- hocking,
- impingement,
- impingence,
- impingent,
- impinging,
- impressive,
- in connection with,
- in contact,
- in point of,
- in re,
- in reference to,
- in regard to,
- in relation to,
- in relation with,
- in respect to,
- installment buying,
- installment plan,
- joyless,
- juxtaposed,
- kiss,
- lamentable,
- manipulation,
- meeting,
- money-raising,
- mortgaging,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nudge,
- nudging,
- of,
- on,
- osculation,
- osculatory,
- overlapping,
- painful,
- palpation,
- pathetic,
- pawning,
- pertaining to,
- pertinent to,
- petting,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pledging,
- poignant,
- pressure,
- re,
- referring to,
- regarding,
- regrettable,
- relating to,
- relative to,
- respecting,
- responsive,
- rub,
- rubbing,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- soul-stirring,
- speaking of,
- stirring,
- stroking,
- sympathetic,
- taction,
- tangency,
- tangent,
- tangential,
- tear-jerking,
- tender,
- tentative contact,
- to,
- touch,
- uncomfortable,
- up against,
- upon,
- with regard to,
- with respect to,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- supple
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- make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- able to adapt,
- accommodating,
- acquiescent,
- acute,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- agile,
- all-around,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- ambidextrous,
- amphibious,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- athletic,
- bendable,
- bending,
- cagey,
- canny,
- changeable,
- checkered,
- clever,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- ductile,
- elastic,
- ever-changing,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fawning,
- feline,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- fluid,
- formable,
- formative,
- foxy,
- generally capable,
- giving,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- impermanent,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- ingenious,
- ingratiating,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- kaleidoscopic,
- knowing,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- many-sided,
- metamorphic,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- moldable,
- movable,
- mutable,
- nimble,
- nonuniform,
- obliging,
- obsequious,
- pawky,
- permutable,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- politic,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- ready,
- receptive,
- resilient,
- resourceful,
- responsive,
- rubbery,
- scheming,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- serpentine,
- servile,
- shapable,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- springy,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stretch,
- stretchy,
- submissive,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- susceptible,
- tactical,
- temporizing,
- timeserving,
- toadying,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- transient,
- transitory,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- trimming,
- two-handed,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- wily,
- wiry,
- yielding
- verbal
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- communicated in the form of words; "verbal imagery"; "a verbal protest"
- prolix; "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare
- relating to or having facility in the use of words; "a good poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound"; "verbal aptitude"
- expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"
- of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"
- of or relating to or formed from words in general; "verbal ability" related words >
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- answering,
- articulated,
- attributive,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- colloquial,
- communicating,
- communicational,
- communional,
- conjunctive,
- conversational,
- copulative,
- correct,
- dinkum,
- enunciated,
- expressed,
- following the letter,
- formal,
- functional,
- genuine,
- glossematic,
- good,
- grammatic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- iconic,
- inartificial,
- interacting,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunional,
- interresponsive,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- intransitive,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lexemic,
- lexical,
- lifelike,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linking,
- literal,
- morphemic,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- nominal,
- nuncupative,
- oral,
- original,
- parol,
- participial,
- phrasal,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- pronounced,
- pure,
- questioning,
- real,
- realistic,
- responsive,
- rightful,
- said,
- semantic,
- semantological,
- semasiological,
- sememic,
- semiotic,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sounded,
- speech,
- spoken,
- sterling,
- structural,
- substantive,
- sure-enough,
- symbolic,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- telepathic,
- traditional,
- transitive,
- transmissional,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- unwritten,
- uttered,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- viva voce,
- vocabular,
- vocabulary,
- vocal,
- vocalized,
- voiced,
- voiceful,
- word,
- word-for-word,
- word-of-mouth
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