- 3. Classic, classical, Attic, chaste, pure, refined, elegant, finished.
Polite, a. Accomplished, genteel, cultivated, refined, courteous, civil, affable, complaisant, courtly, gracious, urbane, polished, well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred, elegant, obliging.
Politeness, n.
- 1. Courtesy, civility, good manners, courteousness, gentility, affability, complaisance, comity, amenity,
suavity, decorum, good-breeding, obliging manner, refinement, urbanity, courtliness.
- 2. Refinement, elegance, finish.
Politic, a.
- 1. Civil, political, civic.
- 2. Wise, prudent, judicious, discreet, sagacious, prudential, wary, provident, astute, long-headed.
- 3. Artful, cunning, shrewd, intriguing, sly, wily, subtle, foxy, Machiavelian, ingenious, unscrupulous, crafty,
skilful, diplomatic, strategic.
- 4. Well-devised, well-adapted.
Political, a.
- 1. Civil, civic, public, politic, national.
- 2. National.
Politician, n.
- 1. Statesman, statist.
- 2. Partisan, dabbler in politics.
Politics, n. pl.
- 1. Political science, political economy, science of government.
- 2. Political affairs, party politics.
Polity, n. Form of government, civil constitution.