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say it: swahv
suave is an adjective meaning "having a sophisticated charm". It is pronounced /ˈswɑv/ — swahv. It carries 2 recorded senses.
smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
“he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage”
“the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for suave come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.