suave

• POS: Adjective

CIDE DICTIONARY

suave, a. [L. suavis sweet, pleasant: cf. F. suave. See Sweet, and cf. Suasion.].

 Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

suave, adj.
1 (of a person, esp. a man) smooth; polite; sophisticated.
2 (of a wine etc.) bland, smooth.

Derivative

suavely adv. suaveness n. suavity n. (pl. -ies).

Etymology

F suave or L suavis agreeable: cf. SWEET

THESAURUS

suave

affable, agreeable, bland, buttery, charming, civilized, cordial, cosmopolitan, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, debonair, diplomatic, disarming, distingue, downy, even, fair-spoken, fine-spoken, flat, fulsome, genial, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glib, gracious, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, ingratiating, leiotrichous, level, nonchalant, oily, oily-tongued, plane, polished, polite, politic, refined, regular, slick, smooth, smooth-shaven, smooth-spoken, smooth-textured, smooth-tongued, smug, soapy, sociable, soft, soft-spoken, sophisticated, suave-spoken, unbroken, unctuous, uniform, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, urbane, well-bred, worldly