About The Word Genteel
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Genteel
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What's The Definition Of Genteel?
[adj] marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Genteel: civilised | civilized | cultivated | cultured | polite | refined Related Terms | Find terms related to Genteel: affected | appropriate | aristocratic | artificial | becoming | blue-blooded | braw | cavalier | chic | chivalrous | civil | classy | clothes-conscious | confined | cosmopolitan | county | courteous | courtly | cultivated | cultured | dapper | dashing | debonair | decent | decorous | distingue | dressed to advantage | dressed to kill | ducal | elegant | exalted | exquisite | fashionable | felicitous | fitting | formal | gentle | gentlemanlike | gentlemanly | graceful | gracious | happy | high | highbred | high-class | insular | intolerant | jaunty | kinglike | kingly | knightly | la-di-da | ladylike | mannered | mannerly | meet | mincing | narrow | natty | neat | nifty | nobby | noble | of gentle blood | of rank | overdone | parochial | patrician | polished | polite | pompous | posh | pretentious | prig | priggish | princelike | princely | prissy | proper | provincial | prudish | puritanical | putting on airs | queenlike | queenly | quite the lady | recherche | refined | respectable | right | ritzy | royal | seemly | sharp | silk-stocking | sleek | smart | smug | snazzy | soigne | soignee | sophisticated | spiffy | spruce | stilted | straitlaced | stuffy | style-conscious | stylish | suave | suitable | swank | swanky | swell | thoroughbred | titled | tony | too-too | tricksy | trig | trim | uncharitable | unnatural | upper crust | urbane | Victorian | well-behaved | well-bred | well-brought-up | well-dressed | well-groomed | well-mannered See Also | Genteel In Webster's Dictionary \Gen*teel"\, a. [F. gentil noble, pretty, graceful. See
{Gentle}.]
1. Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded
as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from
vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a
refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as,
genteel company, manners, address.
2. Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or
manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.
3. Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live
in a genteel allowance.
Syn: Polite; well-bred; refined; polished.
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