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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mannerly |
| Synonyms: | aristocratic, blue-blooded, civil, considerate, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, gallant, genteel, gentle, noble, patrician, polished, polite, refined, taught, trained, upper-crust, urbane, well-behaved, well-mannered |
| Antonyms: | ignoble, unmannered, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | matured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ripened |
| Synonyms: | advanced, aged, complete, considered, consummated, culminated, cultivated, cultured, cured, developed, evolved, experienced, full-blown, full-grown, grown, mellowed, perfected, prepared, prime, reasoned, ripe |
| Antonyms: | adolescent, childish, green, young |
| Main Entry: | raised |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | produced |
| Synonyms: | bred, cultivated, grown, harvested, made |
| Main Entry: | polished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | elegant |
| Synonyms: | bright, buffed, burnished, cavalier, courteous, courtly, couth, cultivated, diplomatic, glistening, polite, politic, refined, shiny, smooth, suave, tactful, urbane |
| Antonyms: | unpolished |
| Main Entry: | well-mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | polite and courteous |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, affable, benevolent, charitable, chivalrous, civil, considerate, cordial, courteous, cultivated, friendly, genteel, gentlemanly, good-mannered, gracious, hospitable, kind, ladylike, mannerly, polished, polite, refined, respectful, well-behaved, well-bred |
| Antonyms: | discourteous, disrespectful, impolite, rude, unmannerly, unrefined |
| Main Entry: | worldly-wise |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | experienced in life |
| Synonyms: | aware, cosmopolitan, cultivated, cultured, enlightened, experienced, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, mature, seasoned, sophisticated, urbane, worldly |
| Antonyms: | inexperienced, naïve, simple, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | old-maidish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | genteel |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, affected, aristocratic, artificial, bluenosed, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, cultivated, distingué, elegant, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, la-di-da, mannerly, noble, ostentatious, polished, polite, pompous, precious, precise, pretentious, priggish, prim, prim and proper, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, refined, respectable, strait-laced, straitlaced, stuffy, stylish, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered |
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| Concept: | Form. |
| Category: | 1. General Form |
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-adjectives
formed, [Receiving form] plastic, fictile; formative., [Give form] plasmic., [Similar in form] isomorphous.
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| Antonyms: | amorphism |
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| Concept: | Rear. |
| Category: | 3. Centrical dimensions; special |
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-adjectives
back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost; postern, posterior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal.
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| Antonyms: | front |
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