Word Meanings - MANNERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MANNERLY)

• Complacent
• Pleased
• satisfied
• content
• pleasant
• affable
• kind
• mannerly
• acquiescent
• amiable
• Courtly
• Dignified
• polished
• refined
• aristocratic
• high-bred

Related words: (words related to MANNERLY)

• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• CONTENTLY
  In a contented manner.
• AMIABLENESS
  The quality of being amiable; amiability.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• AMIABLE
  friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious;
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• ACQUIESCENTLY
  In an acquiescent manner.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• 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.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• PLEASURIST
  A person devoted to worldly pleasure. Sir T. Browne.
• DIGNIFIED
  Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
• CONTENTED
  Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing. -- Con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Con*tent"ed*ness, n.
• SATISFIER
  One who satisfies.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• PLEASURER
  A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
• DIGNIFICATION
  The act of dignifying; exaltation.
• 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
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• DISCONTENT
  Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
• 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.