Suave

/swɑv/

Synonyms for "suave" (92 found)

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Closest matches (19)

Adjective(3 words)

affable agreeable antic artful bland buttery charming civil civilized cordial cosmopolitan courteous courtly cultivated cultured debonair

Strong matches (27)

Adjective(2 words)

debonnaire glib

diplomatic disarming distingue downy elegant evenfair spokenfair-spokenfine spokenfine-spoken finished flat fulsome gallant genial genteel glabrate glabrescent glabrous glib

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graceful gracious honey-mouthed honey-tongued ingratiating

Related words (46)

leiotrichous level nonchalant oily oily-tongued plane pleasant polished polite politic refined regular sleek slick smoothsmooth tonguedsmooth-shaven smooth-spoken smooth-textured smooth-tongued

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smug soapy sociable softsoft spokensoft-spoken sophisticated suave-spoken tactful unbroken unctuous uniform unrough unroughened unruffled urbane well-bred worldly

Adjective(8 words)

polished politic slick smarmy smooth smoothest sophisticated urbane

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6 relation types

More general

3 entries

adjectivedescriptive adjectivesocial trait

More specific

4 entries

debonair glib slick urbane

Collocations

5 entries

suave appearancesuave confidencesuave demeanorsuave mannersuave smile

Inflections

2 entries

more suavemost suave

Derivations

2 entries

suavely suavity

similar

3 entries

diplomatic diplomatical refined

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Gao Dao is usually really suave, but he seems completely smitten in front of his girlfriend.

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Yanni is extremely suave and disarming.

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Ziri was suave around Rima.

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The fictional, suave British spy has charmed two generations of audiences, male and female.

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