euphemistic

English

Etymology

From euphemism +‎ -tic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

euphemistic (comparative more euphemistic, superlative most euphemistic)

1. 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

• euphemistically
• uneuphemistic

Translations

of euphemism

• Catalan: eufemístic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 委婉的 (wéiwǎnde)

• 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)