Synonyms for genteel
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Polite
courteous, mannerly, well-behaved; see polite 1.
Elegant
polished, cultured, well-bred; see refined 2.
Refined, but mannered and pompous
affected, pretentious, formal, prim, mannered, mincing, artificial, hollow, conventional, imitative, la-di-da*.
Antonyms honest*, genuine, cultured.
See genteel in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Characterized by good manners:
civil, courteous, mannerly, polite, well-bred, well-mannered. See courtesyMarked by excessive concern for propriety and good form:
bluenosed, old-maidish, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, strait-laced, stuffy, Victorian. Idiom: prim and proper. See plain
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