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Word Meanings - GENTEEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

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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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  • POLITENESS
    1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
  • POLITE
    1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
  • OBLIGABLE
    Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
  • OBLIGER
    One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
  • POLISHMENT
    The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
  • ACCOMPLISHED
    1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished
  • OBLIGEMENT
    Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
  • REFINED
    Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
  • POLISHED
    Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
  • ACCOMPLISHER
    One who accomplishes.
  • POLISHABLE
    Capable of being polished.
  • CIVILIZED
    Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.
  • CIVILIZE
    1. To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden 2. To admit as suitable to a civilized state.
  • REFINEMENT
    1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
  • GENTEELISH
    Somewhat genteel.
  • REFIND
    To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.
  • GENTEELLY
    In a genteel manner.
  • COURTEOUSNESS
    The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
  • REFINER
    One who, or that which, refines.
  • POLISHEDNESS
    The quality of being polished.
  • PREFINE
    To limit beforehand. Knolles.
  • ANTHROPOLITE
    A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
  • INCIVIL
    Uncivil; rude. Shak.
  • REPOLISH
    To polish again.
  • UNPOLITE
    Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.
  • UNCIVILIZATION
    The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
  • DECIVILIZE
    To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag.
  • UNCIVILTY
    In an uncivil manner.
  • UNCIVILITY
    Incivility.
  • DISOBLIGER
    One who disobliges.
  • UNACCOMPLISHMENT
    The state of being unaccomplished. Milton.
  • PREFINITE
    Prearranged. " Set and prefinite time." Holland.
  • DEPOLISHING
    The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.

 

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