| Main Entry: | savoir faire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tact |
Synonyms: |
Aukflarung, cultivation, diplomacy, graciousness, poise, savoir-faire, savvy, social grace, social know-how, sophistication, suavity, worldliness |
| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
Synonyms: |
act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breeding, education, sophistication |
Synonyms: |
ability, accomplishment, address, aestheticism, art, capacity, civilization, class, courtesy, cultivation, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, dress, elegance, elevation, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fashion, finish, gentility, good taste, grace, improvement, kindness, learning, manners, nobility, perception, polish, politeness, practice, proficiency, refinement, savoir-faire, science, skill, tact, training, urbanity |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | diplomacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tact |
Synonyms: |
address, artfulness, craft, delicacy, delicatesse, discretion, expedience, finesse, negotiation, poise, politics, savoir-faire, skill, statecraft, subtlety |
Antonyms: |
bad manners, impoliteness, rudeness |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, forebearance, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgment, know-how, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, worldliness |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
| Main Entry: | finesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | know-how, maneuver |
Synonyms: |
acumen, adeptness, adroitness, artfulness, artifice, big stick, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, craftiness, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket, run-around, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | gallantry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bravery, civility |
Synonyms: |
address, attentiveness, audacity, boldness, courage, courageousness, courteousness, courtesy, daring, dauntlessness, deference, derring-do, duty, elegance, fearlessness, graciousness, honor, intrepidity, mettle, nerve, nobility, pluck, poise, politeness, prowess, resolution, reverence, savoir-faire, spirit, tact, urbanity, valiance, valor |
Antonyms: |
cowardliness, fear |
| Main Entry: | know-how |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, talent |
Synonyms: |
ability, adroitness, aptitude, art, background, capability, command, craft, cunning, dexterity, experience, expertise, expertness, faculty, flair, ingenuity, knack, knowledge, proficiency, savoir-faire, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, lack, want |
| Main Entry: | poise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-composure, dignity |
Synonyms: |
address, aplomb, assurance, balance, bearing, calmness, confidence, cool, coolness, delicatesse, diplomacy, elegance, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, grace, gravity, polish, presence, presence of mind, sangfroid, savoir faire, self-assurance, self-possession, serenity, stasis, tact, tactfulness, tranquility |
Antonyms: |
excitedness |
| Main Entry: | sophistication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, style |
Synonyms: |
composure, elegance, finesse, poise, refinement, savoir faire, savoir vivre, social grace, tact, urbanity, worldliness, worldly wisdom |
Antonyms: |
ingenuousness, naiveté, simplicity |