Word Meanings - POLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized

Additional info about word: POLITE

1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish; as, polite literature. Macaulay. Syn. -- Polished; refined; well bred; courteous; affable; urbane; civil; courtly; elegant; genteel.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POLITE)

• Accommodating
• Kind
• unselfish
• obliging
• polite
• yielding
• conciliatory
• affable
• Courteous
• accessible
• condescending
• conversible
• gracious
• sociable
• gentle
• complaisant
• urbane
• easy
• approachable
• Civil
• Well-mannered
• political
• courteous
• well-bred
• accommodating
• respectful
• Genteel
• Polite
• refined
• fashionable
• elegant
• aristocratic
• polished
• graceful
• Gentle
• highbred
• mild
• bland
• tame
• docile
• amiable
• meek
• soft
• placid
• tender

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of POLITE)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to POLITE)

• URBANE
  Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
• POLITENESS
  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• POLITE
  1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
• OBLIGABLE
  Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• AMIABLENESS
  The quality of being amiable; amiability.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• CONCILIATORY
  Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• AMIABLE
  friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious;
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• UNPOLITE
  Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.