genteel | Definition of genteel

1 following the established traditions of refined society and good taste

those bygone days when young women were taught how to drink tea while wearing long gloves and other genteel ways of behaving

Synonyms of genteel

befitting, correct, de rigueur, decent, decorous, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly

Words Related to genteel

acceptable, adequate, satisfactory, tolerable

dress, dressy, formal

dignified, elegant, gracious

priggish, prim, stiff, stuffy

apt, material, relevant

compatible, congenial, harmonious

allowed, authorized, kosher, permitted

Near Antonyms of genteel

intolerable, unacceptable, unsatisfactory

casual, grungy, informal

seedy, shabby, tacky

banned, barred, disallowed

forbidden, interdicted, outlawed, prohibited, proscribed

awkward, gauche, ungraceful

Antonyms of genteel

improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, unbecoming, ungenteel, unseemly

2 having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living

she grew up in genteel old Savannah

Synonyms of genteel

accomplished, civilized, couth, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined

Words Related to genteel

cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, high-toned, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic

bourgeois, middlebrow

educated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read

civil, courteous, mannerly, polite, well-bred

cosmopolitan, sophisticated, urbane

hypercivilized, overcivilized, oversophisticated

Near Antonyms of genteel

ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered

lowbrow, unintelligent

coarse, ill-bred, ill-mannered

backwoods, provincial, rustic (also rustical)

inelegant, polyester, unsophisticated

boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, crude, uncouth, vulgar

Antonyms of genteel

barbaric, barbarous, philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined

3 of high birth, rank, or station

the genteel ladies never mixed with the servants

prohibited by reason of her genteel birth from marrying the man she loved

Synonyms of genteel

aristocratic, blue-blooded, gentle, grand, great, highborn, highbred, noble, patrician, silk-stocking, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn

Words Related to genteel

high, lofty, superior

elevated, ennobled, exalted

gentlemanly, kingly, knightly, ladylike, lordly, princely, queenly, regal, royal

high-level, senior

Near Antonyms of genteel

inferior,

Synonyms and Antonyms of genteel

WORD OF THE DAY

impetus