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–adjective

1.	belonging or suited to polite society.

2.	well-bred or refined; polite; elegant; stylish.

3.	affectedly or pretentiously polite, delicate, etc.

[Origin: 1590–1600; < F gentil; see gentle

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—Related forms

gen·teel·ly, adverb

gen·teel·ness, noun

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adj.

Refined in manner; well-bred and polite.
Free from vulgarity or rudeness.
Elegantly stylish: genteel manners and appearance.
1. Striving to convey a manner or appearance of refinement and respectability. See Synonyms at polite.
2. Marked by affected and somewhat prudish refinement.

[French gentil, from Old French; see gentle.]

gen·teel'ly adv., gen·teel'ness n.

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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.).

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genteel
adjective
marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: civilized]

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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.

Arabic:	أنيق جِدّا
Chinese (Simplified):	彬彬有礼的
Chinese (Traditional):	彬彬有禮的
Czech:	přepjatý, uhlazený
Danish:	fornem
Dutch:	deftig
Estonian:	peen(utsev)
Finnish:	herraskainen
French:	maniéré
German:	vornehm tun
Greek:	εξεζητημένος, ψευτοαριστοκρατικός
Hungarian:	finomkodó
Icelandic:	góðborgaralegur; tilgerðarlegur
Indonesian:	terlalu sopan
Italian:	manieroso

Japanese:	気どった
Korean:	점잔빼는
Latvian:	pārsmalcināts
Lithuanian:	gerai išauklėtas, gerų manierų
Norwegian:	terte-, *fisefin, fornem
Polish:	dystyngowany
Portuguese (Brazil):	afetado
Portuguese (Portugal):	polido
Romanian:	politicos
Russian:	(нарочито) благовоспитанный
Slovak:	prepiaty, snobský
Slovenian:	izumetničen
Spanish:	refinado, fino, distinguido; (peyorativo) afectado, cursi
Swedish:	förnäm, gentil
Turkish:	aşırı kibar, çıtkırıldım