POLITE vs CIVIL: ADJECTIVE
- Smooth, polished, burnished.
- Well-mannered, civilized.
- Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish.
- Smooth; polished.
- Showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.
- Refined; elegant.
- Marked by or showing consideration for others and observance of accepted social usage.
- Marked by refinement in taste and manners
- Not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others
- Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil.
- (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life
- Not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others
- Of or in a condition of social order
- Of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state
- Of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals
- Applying to ordinary citizens
- See under War.
- See under Year.
- Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
- Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner.
- Applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military
- See under Engineering.
- See under Death.
- The architecture which is employed in constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in distinction from military and naval architecture, as private houses, palaces, churches, etc.
- An action to enforce the rights or redress the wrongs of an individual, not involving a criminal proceeding.
- Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.
- Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
- Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.
- Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.
- Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.
- Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.
- Of, relating to, or befitting a citizen or citizens.
- See under List.
- That given to a person injured, by action, as opposed to a criminal prosecution.
- All service rendered to and paid for by the state or nation other than that pertaining to naval or military affairs.
- The substitution of business principles and methods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office.
- The whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states.
- Same as Civil action.
- Relating to the rights of private individuals and legal proceedings concerning these rights as distinguished from criminal, military, or international regulations or proceedings.
- Being in accordance with or denoting legally recognized divisions of time.
- Sufficiently observing or befitting accepted social usages; polite: : polite.
- Of ordinary citizens or ordinary community life as distinguished from the military or the ecclesiastical.
- Of or relating to citizens and their interrelations with one another or with the state.
- See under Law.
POLITE vs CIVIL: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To polish; to refine; to render polite.
- N/A
POLITE vs CIVIL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Polished; smooth; lustrous; bright.
- Polished, refined, or elegant in speech, manner, or behavior; well-bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging: said of persons or their speech or behavior, etc.: as, polite society; he was very polite.
- Polished or refined in style, or employing such a style: now rarely applied to persons: as, polite learning; polite literature (that is, belleslettres).
- Synonyms Civil, Polite, Courteous, Urbane, Complaisant, gracious, affable, courtly, gentlemanly, ladylike. Civil, literally, applies to one who fulfils the duty of a citizen; it may mean simply not rude, or observant of the external courtesies of intercourse, or quick to do and say gratifying and complimentary things. Polite applies to one who shows a polished civility, who has a higher training in ease and gracefulness of manners; politeness is a deeper, more comprehensive, more delicate, and perhaps more genuine thing than civility. Polite, though much abused, is becoming the standard word for the bearing of a refined and kind person toward others. Courteous, literally, expresses that style of politeness which belongs to courts: a courteous man is one who is gracefully respectful in his address and manner—one who exhibits a union of dignified complaisance and kindness. The word applies to all sincere kindness and attention. Urbane, literally city-like, expresses a sort of politeness which is not only sincere and kind, but peculiarly suave and agreeable. Complaisant applies to one who pleases by being pleased, or obliges and is polite by yielding personal preferences; it may represent mere fawning, but generally does not. See genteel.
- [⟨ L. politus, pp. of polire, polish: see polish, verb] To polish; refine.
- Not rude
- Pertaining to the state in general; pertaining to organized society as represented by government.
- Specifically, relating to the commonwealth as secularly organized for purposes of peace: opposed to ecclesiastical, military, or naval; relating to the citizen in his relations to the commonwealth as thus organized, or to his fellow-citizens: as, civil rights; or, in particular, relating to property and other rights maintainable in law at the owner's suit: opposed to criminal: as, civil actions, civil courts, civil remedies.
- Reduced to order, rule, and government; not in a condition of anarchy; controlled by a regular administration; exhibiting some refinement of customs and manners; not savage or wild; civilized: as, civil life; civil society.
- Intestine; not foreign: as, civil war.
- Courteous; obliging; well bred; affable; often, merely or formally polite; not discourteous.
- Characteristic of a citizen, as opposed to a courtier, soldier, etc.; not gay or showy; sober; grave; somber.
- More specifically, the municipal law of the Roman empire, the phrase jus civile (civil law) being used in Roman law for those rules and principles of law which were thought to be peculiar to the Roman people, in contradistinction to those which were supposed to be common to all nations (jus gentium). By English and American legal authors civil law is now commonly used to signify the whole system of Roman law, of which the principal source is the collection made by the Emperor Justinian, consisting of the Digest, Code, and Novellæ Constitutiones. Sometimes the term is also applied to the unwritten law of the principal nations of continental Europe, especially of Germany, which is based on the Roman law. Some authors speak in the latter case of modern civil law. The civil law is the basis also of the law of Scotland, Spanish America, Louisiana, and Quebec.
- Not rude
POLITE vs CIVIL: RELATED WORDS
- Gentle, Amiable, Cordial, Rude, Well mannered, Refined, Cultivated, Civil, Nice, Cultured, Civilized, Genteel, Gracious, Mannerly, Courteous
- Courteous, Government, Governmental, Damages, Secular, Marital, Secession, Fratricidal, Political, Matrimonial, Criminal, Polite, Civic, Civilized, Civilian
POLITE vs CIVIL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Gentle, Amiable, Cordial, Rude, Well mannered, Refined, Cultivated, Civil, Nice, Cultured, Civilized, Genteel, Gracious, Mannerly, Courteous
- Courteous, Government, Governmental, Damages, Secular, Marital, Secession, Fratricidal, Political, Matrimonial, Criminal, Polite, Civic, Civilized, Civilian
POLITE vs CIVIL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- They were always so polite and very professional.
- Everyone involved was very helpful, polite and professional.
- Demand letters must be formal, but also polite.
- The gentle calm ambiance and very polite staff.
- Mostly new cars, polite and or quiet drivers.
- Hey, it can never hurt to be polite.
- Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
- Employers want employees to be polite, respectful and considerate, and giving two weeks notice is exactly that: polite, respectful and considerate.
- Both are polite, and is is hard to say which is more polite than the other.
- United States to form polite questions that include a polite request for permission, and universally in formal or legal situations.
- Attorney General may bring a civil action to recover the civil penalty prescribed pursuant to this subdivision.
- Civil Rights Division has abandoned much of the traditional civil rights enforcement work it once pursued.
- The civil enforcement section requires each Party to make civil judicial procedures concerning IPR enforcement available.
- Cameron Quinn, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security and Mr.
- DOJ focuses more on systemic civil rights litigation under the civil rights statutes it enforces.
- Civil Service Commission under Civil Service Rule I which contained the identical prohibition.
- The Civil Division dockets all pleadings in foreclosures, money judgments, garnishments and other miscellaneous civil actions.
- All civil actions filed in the District are subject tomediation under these Local Civil Rules.
- Civil Liberties and Civil Rightsto be administered at home on two separate dates.
- All civil juries, and most civil matters are continued.
POLITE vs CIVIL: QUESTIONS
- When does the situation begin with a polite conversation?
- Is the post office in Merrimack New Hampshire polite?
- What are the 15 phrases for speaking polite English?
- How should you use polite German phrases correctly?
- How has polite communication changed over the years?
- What are some polite alternatives to the imperative?
- Are Canadians more polite than Americans on Twitter?
- Which personality type has the most polite manners?
- Why choose polite Enterprises for retractable bollards?
- Is Americanization a polite euphemism for globalization?
- What is the environmental impact of civil engineering?
- What civil rights did the Reconstruction Acts give?
- Which states abolished slavery before the Civil War?
- How did technological innovations affect the Civil War?
- Was the Civil War unnecessary and unconstitutional?
- Is the Civil Rights Commission politically gridlocked?
- Which dynasty created the Civil Service examination?
- Which court decisions define American Civil Liberties?
- What are the civil service retirement requirements?
- What was the civil uprising phase of the Syrian Civil War?