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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honorable |
| Synonyms: | aristocratic, august, courtly, decorous, distinguished, distingué, eminent, formal, grand, grave, great, highbrow, highfalutin', imperial, imperious, lofty, magisterial, magnificent, nifty*, noble, proud, refined, regal, reserved, respected, solemn, somber, stately, superior, upright |
| Antonyms: | dishonorable, indecorous, undignified |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | genteel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sophisticated, cultured |
| Synonyms: | affected, aristocratic, artificial, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, cultivated, distingué, elegant, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, la-di-da, mannerly, noble, ostentatious, polished, polite, pompous, precious, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, refined, respectable, straitlaced, stuffy, stylish, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered |
| Notes: | genteel means marked by refinement in taste and manners; a gentile is a person who does not acknowledge your God or denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew; gentle means soft and mild or having or showing a kindly or tender nature |
| Antonyms: | boorish, callous, rough, rude, rugged, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | notable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important; famous |
| Synonyms: | big-league, bodacious, celebrated, celebrious, conspicuous, distinguished, distingué, eminent, eventful, evident, extraordinary, famed, great, heavy*, high-profile, illustrious, major-league, manifest, marked, memorable, momentous, nameable, noteworthy, noticeable, notorious, observable, outstanding, preeminent, prominent, pronounced, rare, red-letter, remarkable, renowned, rubric, serious, something else, striking, top-drawer, uncommon, unusual, well-known |
| Notes: | notable means 'worthy of notice' and noticeable means 'readily observed' |
| Antonyms: | commonplace, inconsequential, insignificant, ordinary, unimportant, unnoticeable, unremarkable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | suave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charming, smooth |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, bland, civilized, cordial, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, diplomatic, distingué, fulsome, genial, glib, gracious, ingratiating, obliging, oily, pleasant, pleasing, polished, polite, politic, refined, smooth-tongued, sociable, soft*, soft-spoken, sophisticated, unctuous, urbane, well-bred, worldly |
| Antonyms: | awkward, clumsy, unpolished, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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