Politic

Adjective

 * 1) shrewd, prudent and expedient
 * 2) discreet and diplomatic
 * 3) artful, crafty or cunning

Thesaurus
Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adroit, advantageous, advisable, appropriate, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative, becoming, befitting, bravura, brilliant, cagey, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, civic, clean, clever, congruous, considerate, convenient, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, crafty, cunning, cute, daedal, deceitful, decent, deep, deep-laid, deft, deliberate, delicate, designing, desirable, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discreet, discriminating, discriminative, enlightened, evasive, excellent, expedient, expert, fancy, favorable, feasible, felicitous, feline, fit, fitten, fitting, foxy, fructuous, geopolitical, gingerly, good, goodish, governmental, graceful, guarded, guileful, handy, happy, heedful, hesitant, ingenious, insidious, intelligent, inventive, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, knowing, leaving out nothing, likely, magisterial, masterful, masterly, meet, mindful, neat, no mean, noncommittal, on guard, opportune, overlooking no possibility, pawky, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, political, politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic, politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military, politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific, politico-social, politico-theological, professional, proficient, profitable, proper, provident, prudent, prudential, quick, quite some, ready, recommendable, reflecting, reflective, regardful, resourceful, right, safe, sagacious, sage, scheming, seasonable, seemly, sensible, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skillful, slick, slippery, slow to act, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, sortable, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish, subtile, subtle, suffragist, suitable, supple, tactful, tactical, tentative, the compleat, the complete, thorough, thoughtful, timely, to be desired, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unprecipitate, useful, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-advised, well-done, well-judged, well-timed, wily, wise, workmanlike, worthwhile

Antonyms

 * impolitic

Related terms

 * police
 * policy
 * political
 * politician
 * politicize
 * politics
 * polity