What is "diplomatic" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does diplomatic mean in English? Meaning of diplomatic definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "diplomatic" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "diplomatic": relating to or characteristic of diplomacy

Adjective

  • Meaning: relating to or characteristic of diplomacy
  • Example: diplomatic immunity
  • Synonyms: diplomatic
  • Meaning of "diplomatic": using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people

    Adjective

  • Meaning: using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people
  • Example: the hostess averted a confrontation with a diplomatic chenage of subject
  • Synonyms: diplomatic diplomatical
  • Antonyms: undiplomatic
  • Similar: bland kid-glove politic smooth suave tactful
  • Also see: politic
  • Adjective: Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries. She spent thirty years working for Canada's diplomatic service. Albania immediately severed diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments. Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, "best" manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture). The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Critical Editions of Septuagint/Old Greek Texts.Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, "best" manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture). The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Critical Editions of Septuagint/Old Greek Texts.Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic.
  • Synonyms:

    gracious, polite, conciliatory, strategic, adept, arch, artful, astute, bland, brainy, cagey, calculating, capable, clever, courteous, crafty, cunning, deft, delicate, dexterous, discreet, intriguing, prudent, savvy, scheming, sensitive, sharp, shrewd, sly, smooth, suave, subtle, wily, guileful, conniving, contriving, opportunistic,

    Antonyms:

    artless, impolite, tactless, rude,

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    diplomatic in English: diplomatic
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