tact
noun /tækt/
/tækt/
[uncountable]- the ability to deal with difficult or embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people synonym sensitivity
- Settling the dispute required great tact and diplomacy.
- She is not exactly known for her tact.
Extra Examples- The incident should have been handled with more tact by the police.
- The situation called for considerable tact.
- Their host, who was the soul of tact, never mentioned the incident again.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- have
- call for
- need
- …
- with tact
- a lack of tact
- tact and diplomacy
Word Originmid 17th cent. (denoting the sense of touch): via French from Latin tactus ‘touch, sense of touch’, from tangere ‘to touch’.