Chapter Pointer to Porphyry of P by Soule's Synonymes

3. Classic, classical, Attic, chaste, pure, refined, elegant, finished.

Polite, a. Accomplished, genteel, cultivated, refined, courteous, civil, affable, complaisant, courtly, gracious, urbane, polished, well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred, elegant, obliging.

Politeness, n.

1. Courtesy, civility, good manners, courteousness, gentility, affability, complaisance, comity, amenity, suavity, decorum, good-breeding, obliging manner, refinement, urbanity, courtliness.

2. Refinement, elegance, finish.

Politic, a.

1. Civil, political, civic.

2. Wise, prudent, judicious, discreet, sagacious, prudential, wary, provident, astute, long-headed.

3. Artful, cunning, shrewd, intriguing, sly, wily, subtle, foxy, Machiavelian, ingenious, unscrupulous, crafty, skilful, diplomatic, strategic.

4. Well-devised, well-adapted.

Political, a.

1. Civil, civic, public, politic, national.

2. National.

Politician, n.

1. Statesman, statist.

2. Partisan, dabbler in politics.

Politics, n. pl.

1. Political science, political economy, science of government.

2. Political affairs, party politics.

Polity, n. Form of government, civil constitution.