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All opportunistic synonyms

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adjective opportunistic

  • dexterous — Someone who is dexterous is very skilful and clever with their hands.
  • discreet — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
  • guileful — insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.
  • intriguing — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
  • prudent — wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
  • savvy — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
  • scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
  • sensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • sharp — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
  • shrewd — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
  • sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
  • smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
  • suave — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
  • subtle — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
  • wily — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
  • materialistic — excessively concerned with physical comforts or the acquisition of wealth and material possessions, rather than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
  • sophisticated — sophisticated.
  • cosmopolitan — A cosmopolitan place or society is full of people from many different countries and cultures.
  • hardened — made or become hard or harder.
  • practical — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
  • selfish — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
  • urbane — having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.
  • avaricious — An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions.
  • been around — in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, etc.: The crowd gathered around.
  • blase — If you describe someone as blasé, you mean that they are not easily impressed, excited, or worried by things, usually because they have seen or experienced them before.
  • callous — A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings.
  • cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
  • covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
  • disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • grasping — greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man.
  • greedy — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
  • knowing — affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
  • self-centered — concerned solely or chiefly with one's own interests, welfare, etc.; engrossed in self; selfish; egotistical.
  • uptown — to, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city: He rode uptown on the bus.
  • overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • eager — keen or ardent in desire or feeling; impatiently longing: I am eager for news about them. He is eager to sing.
  • enthusiastic — Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
  • excessive — More than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate.
  • high-flown — extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc.
  • overweening — presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud: a brash, insolent, overweening fellow.
  • pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • unscrupulous — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
  • resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • unprincipled — lacking or not based on moral scruples or principles: an unprincipled person; unprincipled behavior.
  • devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
  • cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
  • adaptable — If you describe a person or animal as adaptable, you mean that they are able to change their ideas or behaviour in order to deal with new situations.
  • politic — shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic.
  • tactful — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
  • conciliatory — When you are conciliatory in your actions or behaviour, you show that you are willing to end a disagreement with someone.
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