English
Etymology
From euphemism + -tic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
euphemistic (comparative more euphemistic, superlative most euphemistic)
- Of or pertaining to euphemism.
- Antonym: uneuphemistic
1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 14:Taking these cues, I rewrote and rewrote the proposal couching my problem in the bland, euphemistic language that I was rapidly learning is the lingua franca of the corporate world.
Derived terms
Translations
of euphemism
- Catalan: eufemístic
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 委婉的 (wéiwǎnde), 婉言 (zh) (wǎn yán)
- Czech: eufemistický
- Danish: forskønnende, eufemistisk
- Finnish: kaunisteleva, eufemistinen (fi)
- French: euphémique (fr)
- Galician: eufemístico m
- German: beschönigend (de) (linguistics), verhüllend (de) (linguistics), euphemistisch (de) (linguistics, elevated style)
- Hungarian: eufemisztikus (hu)
- Italian: eufemistico (it)
- Japanese: 婉曲の (えんきょくの, enkyoku no), 遠回しの (とおまわしの, tōmawashi no)
- Korean: 완곡(婉曲)하다 (wan'gokhada)
- Latin: euphemisticus
- Polish: eufemistyczny (pl)
- Portuguese: eufemístico (pt)
- Russian: эвфемисти́ческий (ru) (evfemistíčeskij)
- Spanish: eufemístico (es)
- Tagalog: pahimanin
- Welsh: mwytheiriol, llednais (cy)
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