'Genteel' definitions:
Definition of 'genteel'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite]
Definition of 'Genteel'
From: GCIDE
- Genteel \Gen*teel"\, a. [F. gentil noble, pretty, graceful. See Gentle.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.
- Syn: Polite; well-bred; refined; polished. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'genteel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- appropriate,
- aristocratic,
- artificial,
- becoming,
- blue-blooded,
- braw,
- cavalier,
- chic,
- chivalrous,
- civil,
- classy,
- clothes-conscious,
- confined,
- cosmopolitan,
- county,
- courteous,
- courtly,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- dapper,
- dashing,
- debonair,
- decent,
- decorous,
- distingue,
- dressed to advantage,
- dressed to kill,
- ducal,
- elegant,
- exalted,
- exquisite,
- fashionable,
- felicitous,
- fitting,
- formal,
- gentle,
- gentlemanlike,
- gentlemanly,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- happy,
- high,
- high-class,
- highbred,
- insular,
- intolerant,
- jaunty,
- kinglike,
- kingly,
- knightly,
- la-di-da,
- ladylike,
- mannered,
- mannerly,
- meet,
- mincing,
- narrow,
- natty,
- neat,
- nifty,
- nobby,
- noble,
- of gentle blood,
- of rank,
- overdone,
- parochial,
- patrician,
- polished,
- polite,
- pompous,
- posh,
- pretentious,
- prig,
- priggish,
- princelike,
- princely,
- prissy,
- proper,
- provincial,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- putting on airs,
- queenlike,
- queenly,
- quite the lady,
- recherche,
- refined,
- respectable,
- right,
- ritzy,
- royal,
- seemly,
- sharp,
- silk-stocking,
- sleek,
- smart,
- smug,
- snazzy,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- spiffy,
- spruce,
- stilted,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- style-conscious,
- stylish,
- suave,
- suitable,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- thoroughbred,
- titled,
- tony,
- too-too,
- tricksy,
- trig,
- trim,
- uncharitable,
- unnatural,
- upper crust,
- urbane,
- Victorian,
- well-behaved,
- well-bred,
- well-brought-up,
- well-dressed,
- well-groomed,
- well-mannered