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| 1. | belonging or suited to polite society. |
| 2. | well-bred or refined; polite; elegant; stylish. |
| 3. | affectedly or pretentiously polite, delicate, etc. |
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genteel
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adj.
[French gentil, from Old French; see gentle.] gen·teel'ly adv., gen·teel'ness n. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
genteel
1599, from M.Fr. gentil "nice, graceful, pleasing," from O.Fr. "high-born, noble;" a reborrowing of the word that had early come into Eng. as gentle (q.v.).
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| genteel | |
adjective | |
| marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: civilized] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
genteel [dʒənˈtiːl] adjective
acting, talking etc with a very great (often too great) attention to the rules of polite behaviour
Example: She was laughed at for being too genteel.
Example: She was laughed at for being too genteel.
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Genteel
Fal"con*gen`til\, n. [F. faucon-gentil. See Falcon, and Genteel.] (Zo["o]l.) The female or young of the goshawk (Astur palumbarius).| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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