discreet as an adjective: - 1
- 2
- 3
discreet
adjective
1 discreet
Marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint.
Roget 698:
skillful,
dexterous,
adroit,
expert,
apt,
handy,
quick,
deft,
ready,
gain;
slick,
smart
etc.
(active)
682;
proficient,
good at,
up to,
at home in,
master of,
a good hand at,
au fait,
thoroughbred,
masterly,
crack,
accomplished;
conversant
etc.
(knowing)
490.
experienced,
practiced,
skilled,
hackneyed;
up in,
well up in;
in practice,
in proper cue;
competent,
efficient,
qualified,
capable,
fitted,
fit for,
up to the mark,
trained,
initiated,
prepared,
primed,
finished.
clever,
cute,
able,
ingenious,
felicitous,
gifted,
talented,
endowed;
inventive
etc.
515;
shrewd,
sharp,
on the ball
etc.
(intelligent)
498;
cunning
etc.
702;
alive to,
up to snuff,
not to be caught with chaff;
discreet.
neat-handed,
fine-fingered,
nimble-fingered,
ambidextrous,
sure-footed;
cut out for,
fitted for.
technical,
artistic,
scientific,
daedalian†,
shipshape;
workman-like,
business-like,
statesman-like.
... show more
Polish: dyskretny
2 discreet
Unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic:
— A discreet silence.
synonym: discerning.
3 discreet
Heedful of potential consequences:
— A discreet investor.
synonym: circumspect.
Roget 864:
cautious,
wary,
guarded;
on one's guard
etc.
(watchful)
459;
cavendo tutus [Lat.];
in medio tutissimus [Lat.];
vigilant.
careful,
heedful;
cautelous†,
stealthy,
chary,
shy of,
circumspect,
prudent,
discreet,
politic;
sure-footed
etc.
(skillful)
698.
unenterprising,
unadventurous,
cool,
steady,
self-possessed;
overcautious.
... show more
Moby thesaurus: Olympian, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, chilled, chilly, circumspect, close, closemouthed, cold, considerate, constrained, controlled, cool, dark, deliberate, detached, diplomatic, discriminating, discriminative, distant, dry, enlightened, evasive, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, gingerly, guarded, heedful, hesitant, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, introverted, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, leaving out nothing, mindful, moderate, modest, noncommittal, offish, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, politic, provident, prudent, prudential, reasonable, reflecting, reflective, regardful, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, safe, secret, secretive, shifty, shrinking, simple, slow to act, standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, tactful, temperate, tentative, thorough, thoughtful, unadorned, unadventurous, unaffable, unapproachable, uncommunicative, uncongenial, undaring, undemonstrative, unelaborate, unenterprising, unexcessive, unexpansive, unextreme, ungenial, unostentatious, unprecipitate, unpretentious, wary, watchful, well-advised, well-judged, withdrawn ... show more.
debug info: 0.0403