Definition of genteel Genteel

/ʤɛntiˈl/ - [jenteel] - gen•teel

We found 13 definitions of genteel from 6 different sources.

What does genteel mean?

Adjective
genteel - marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
		civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, polite
		refined (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

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genteel (a.)
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.
genteel (a.)
Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.
genteel (a.)
Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.

genteel
Behaving polite and well-mannered.
genteel
Stylish or elegant.
genteel
Affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite.
genteel
Aristocratic

genteel
jen-tēl′, adj. well-bred: graceful in manners or in form: fashionable.—adj. Genteel′ish, somewhat genteel.—adv. Genteel′ly.—n. Genteel′ness (same as Gentility).—The genteel, the manners and usages of genteel or well-bred society. [Fr. gentil—L. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or clan—later, well-bred.]

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