NONDIPLOMATIC Antonyms

• making or willing to make concessions

• intended to placate

• showing concern for the rights and feelings of others

• characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners

• exhibiting courtesy and politeness

• relating to or characteristic of diplomacy

• using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people

• marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint

• unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

• heedful of potential consequences

• showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.

• not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others

• marked by refinement in taste and manners

• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel

• freed from impurities by processing

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• precise to a fine degree

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• full of or exhibiting respect

• feeling or manifesting veneration

• responsive to physical stimuli

• being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others

• able to feel or perceive

• someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead

• hurting

• of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security

• having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others

• showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people