From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpoliticpol‧i‧tic /ˈpɒlətɪk $ ˈpɑː-/ adjective formalSENSIBLEsensible and likely to gain you an advantageSYN prudentit is politic to do somethingIt would not be politic to ignore the reporters. →politics, body politicExamples from the Corpuspolitic• In this most political of cities, what a woman wears must be politic.• His Caesar is a cool, politicfigure, shallow and almost silly.• Had Stiles been more politic, he would have used the information in court.• Judge Lyttle, politic in the ways a judge can be, treatsreporters well.Originpolitic(1400-1500)Frenchpolitique, from Latinpoliticus, from Greekpolitikos, from polites"citizen", from polis"city"