tact
IPA: tˈækt
noun
- Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
- Propriety; manners (etiquette).
- The sense of touch; feeling.
- (music) The stroke in beating time.
- (psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
- (slang) Clipping of tactic. [A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.]
verb
- (psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant).
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Examples of "tact" in Sentences
- He is tactful and skilled.
- Please leave the article in tact.
- I encourage you to be extra tactful.
- People need tact to work efficiently.
- Criticism of this type should be tactful.
- Thanks for the tactful hadling of my gaffe.
- They displayed tact, enhancing the dignity of the office.
- As there is no tactful way to ask, I'll not beat around the bush.
- But especially tactful messages might reduce the number of disputations.
- But articles are supposed to be written with a laconic tact for the gist.
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