Word Meanings - POLITELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In a polished manner; so as to be smooth or glossy. Milton. 2. In a polite manner; with politeness.

Related words: (words related to POLITELY)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• 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
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• GLOSSY
  1. Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface. 2. Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.
• SMOOTHING
  fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
• POLITESSE
  Politeness.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• POLITELY
  1. In a polished manner; so as to be smooth or glossy. Milton. 2. In a polite manner; with politeness.
• POLISH
  Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• UNPOLITE
  Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• POSPOLITE
  A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.
• IMPOLITE
  Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n.
• TYPOLITE
  A stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.