Definition of tact

"tact" in the noun sense

1. tact, tactfulness

consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense

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Quotations for tact

Taste is the mind's tact. [ De Boufflers ]

Taste is the tact of the mind. [ Boufflers ]

Ugliness without tact is horrible. [ Hawthorne ]

Talent without tact is only half talent. [ Horace Greeley ]

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything. [ I. Disraeli ]

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best talents. It supplies the place of many talents. [ Simms ]

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. [ W. P. Scargill ]

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]

tact in Scrabble®

The word tact is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters tact:

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tact in Words With Friends™

The word tact is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters tact:

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The 74 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In tact

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Words within the letters of tact

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Word Growth involving tact

Shorter words in tact

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Longer words containing tact

atactostele atactosteles

atactostelic

atactostely

contact contactable

contact contacted recontacted

contact contacted uncontacted

contact contacting recontacting

contact contactless

contact contactor contactors

contact contacts recontacts

contact noncontact

contact recontact recontacted

contact recontact recontacting

contact recontact recontacts

intact intactness

intact nonintact

protactinium protactiniums

shortacting

stactometer stactometers

tactful tactfully untactfully

tactful tactfulness

tactful untactful untactfully

tactic anemotactic

tactic chemotactic chemotactical chemotactically

tactic countertactic countertactics

tactic electrotactic electrotactical electrotactically

tactic galvanotactic galvanotactical galvanotactically

tactic geotactic geotactical geotactically

tactic heliotactic heliotactically

tactic heliotactic paraheliotactic

tactic hydrotactic hydrotactical hydrotactically

tactic irritotactic

tactic nontactic nontactical nontactically

tactic phonotactic phonotactics

tactic phototactic phototactically

tactic rheotactic

tactic stereotactic

tactic syndiotactic

tactic syntactic syntactical syntactically

tactic syntactic syntactician syntacticians

tactic syntactic syntactics

tactic tactical chemotactical chemotactically

tactic tactical electrotactical electrotactically

tactic tactical galvanotactical galvanotactically

tactic tactical geotactical geotactically

tactic tactical hydrotactical hydrotactically

tactic tactical nontactical nontactically

tactic tactical syntactical syntactically

tactic tactical tactically chemotactically

tactic tactical tactically electrotactically

tactic tactical tactically galvanotactically

tactic tactical tactically geotactically

tactic tactical tactically heliotactically

tactic tactical tactically hydrotactically

tactic tactical tactically nontactically

tactic tactical tactically phototactically

tactic tactical tactically syntactically

tactic tactical tactically thermotactically

tactic tactical tactically thigmotactically

tactic tactical thermotactical thermotactically

tactic tactical thigmotactical thigmotactically

tactic tactician syntactician syntacticians

tactic tactician tacticians syntacticians

tactic tactics countertactics

tactic tactics phonotactics

tactic tactics syntactics

tactic thermotactic thermotactical thermotactically

tactic thigmotactic thigmotactical thigmotactically

tactic topotactic

tactic zygotactic

tactile nontactile

tactile tactilely

tactile vibrotactile

tactility nontactility

tactless contactless

tactless tactlessly

tactless tactlessness

tactual