POLITE vs GENTEEL: ADJECTIVE
- Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish.
- Smooth; polished.
- 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.
- Well-mannered, civilized.
- Showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.
- Smooth, polished, burnished.
- Marked by refinement in taste and manners
- Refined or polite, often in an affected way: : polite.
- Typical or characteristic of the upper class.
- Elegantly stylish or fashionable.
- 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.
- Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner. Law.
- Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman.
- Polite and well-mannered.
- Stylish or elegant.
- Aristocratic
POLITE vs GENTEEL: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To polish; to refine; to render polite.
- N/A
POLITE vs GENTEEL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Not rude
- [⟨ L. politus, pp. of polire, polish: see polish, verb] To polish; refine.
- 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.
- Synonyms Genteel, Polite, well-mannered, polished. Genteel refers to the outward chiefly; polite to the outward as an expression of inward refinement and kindness. Genteel has latterly tended to express a somewhat fastidious pride of refinement, family position, and the like. Genteel is often largely negative, meaning free from what is low, vulgar, or connected with the uncultivated classes; polite is positive and active, meaning that one acts in a certain way. Polite has, however, a passive meaning, that of ‘polished’: as, polite society, polite literature. See polite.
- Fashionable; stylish; à la mode.
- Adapted to, suitable for, or characteristic of polite society; free from vulgarity or meanness in appearance, quality, amount, etc.; elegant; becoming; adequate: as, genteel manners; a genteel address; genteel comedy; a genteel income or allowance.
- Polite; well-bred; decorous in manners or behavior; refined: as, genteel company.
POLITE vs GENTEEL: RELATED WORDS
- Gentle, Amiable, Cordial, Rude, Well mannered, Refined, Cultivated, Civil, Nice, Cultured, Civilized, Genteel, Gracious, Mannerly, Courteous
- Mannered, Mannerly, Aristocratic, Courtly, Decorous, Gentlemanly, Distinguishable, Proper, Distinguished, Nice, Cultivated, Refined, Cultured, Civilized, Polite
POLITE vs GENTEEL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Gentle, Amiable, Cordial, Rude, Well mannered, Refined, Cultivated, Civil, Nice, Cultured, Civilized, Genteel, Gracious, Mannerly, Courteous
- Mannered, Mannerly, Aristocratic, Courtly, Decorous, Gentlemanly, Distinguishable, Proper, Distinguished, Nice, Cultivated, Refined, Cultured, Civilized, Polite
POLITE vs GENTEEL: 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.
- Its genteel origins couldn't be further from that image.
- LET, MA genteel Tenemeni in Iba Cobiirn Block, on An.
- This was encouraged as a good hobby for genteel ladies.
- Louis was a confidential servant, of genteel manners and appearances.
- Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard, ed.
- We, on the other hand, are genteel and sophisticated.
- Company at the different little Tables were quite genteel.
- Lois Hornsby was such a genteel Southern lady.
- BOURDAIN: He was the very opposite of genteel.
- England, Cheltenham, which was one of the most genteel towns in the most genteel area of England.
POLITE vs GENTEEL: QUESTIONS
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