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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cultivated, refined |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, all-around, classic, consummate, cultured, elegant, expert, exquisite, flawless, impeccable, many-sided, masterly, perfected, polished, professional, proficient, skilled, smooth, suave, urbane, versatile |
| Antonyms: | crude, uncultivated, unfinished, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | gentle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of noble birth |
| Synonyms: | Brahmin, aristocratic, blue-blooded, courteous, cultured, elegant, genteel, highborn, highbred, noble, polished, polite, refined, upper-class, well-born, well-bred |
| 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: | crude, low |
| Main Entry: | glossy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shiny |
| Synonyms: | bright, brilliant, burnished, chatoyant, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glistening, lustrous, polished, reflecting, silken, silky, sleek, slick, smooth |
| Antonyms: | drab, dull, mate, muted |
| Main Entry: | level |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smooth, balanced |
| Synonyms: | akin, aligned, alike, calm, commensurate, common, comparable, consistent, constant, continuous, equable, equivalent, even, exact, flat, flush, horizontal, identical, in line, leveled, like, lined up, matched, matching, of same height, on a line, on a par, on one plane, parallel, plain, planate, plane, planed, polished, precise, proportionate, regular, rolled, same, stable, steady, straight, trim, trimmed, unbroken, unfluctuating, uniform, uninterrupted |
| Antonyms: | ragged, uneven |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illuminated |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, aglow, bright, brilliant, burnished, clear, cloudless, flashing, fluorescent, glossy, glowing, lambent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rich, scintillant, shining, shiny, sunny, unclouded, unobscured, vivid, well-lighted, well-lit |
| Antonyms: | black, dark, darkened, dim, gloomy, obscure |
| Main Entry: | lustrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glossy, shining |
| Synonyms: | bright, burnished, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glacé, gleaming, glinting, glistening, glorious, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, luminous, polished, radiant, refulgent, shimmering, shiny, sparkling, splendid, waxy |
| Antonyms: | dark, dull, matte, unshiny |
| Main Entry: | mannerly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | polite, well-behaved |
| Synonyms: | charming, civil, civilized, considerate, courteous, decorous, genteel, gracious, polished, refined, respectful, well-bred, well-mannered |
| Antonyms: | crass, crude, gross, impolite, misbehaved, rude |
| Main Entry: | oily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fatty, greasy |
| Synonyms: | adipose, buttery, butyraceous, creamy, lardy, lubricant, lubricative, lubricous, lustrous, oil-soaked, oiled, oleaginous, polished, rich, saponaceous, sleek, slippery, smeary, smooth, soapy, soothing, swimming, unctuous, waxy |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | polite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mannerly, civilized |
| Synonyms: | affable, amenable, amiable, attentive, bland, civil, complaisant, concerned, conciliatory, condescending, considerate, cordial, courteous, courtly, cultured, deferential, diplomatic, elegant, friendly, genteel, gentle, good-natured, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, obliging, obsequious, pleasant, polished, politic, punctilious, refined, respectful, smooth, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, thoughtful, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered |
| Antonyms: | impolite, rude, uncivil, uncivilized, unmannerly, unrefined, unsophisticated |
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