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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brave, splendid |
| Synonyms: | attentive, bold, considerate, courageous, courteous, courtly, daring, dashing, dauntless, dignified, doughty, fearless, fire-eating, game*, glorious, gracious, grand, gritty, hairy*, heroic, honorable, intrepid, lionhearted, lofty, magnanimous, noble, plucky, polite, quixotic, stately, stouthearted, suave, thoughtful, urbane, valiant, valorous |
| Antonyms: | afraid, cowardly, fearful, timid, ungentlemanly, unmannerly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, giving |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, affable, amiable, amicable, approachable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, big-hearted, bland, bonhomous, charitable, chivalrous, civil, compassionate, complaisant, congenial, considerate, cordial, courteous, courtly, easy, forthcoming, friendly, gallant, genial, good-hearted, good-natured, hospitable, indulgent, lenient, loving, merciful, mild, obliging, pleasing, polite, sociable, stately, suave, tender, unctuous, urbane, well-mannered |
| Notes: | graceful means characterized by beauty of movement, style, or form; gracious means characterized by charm, good taste, kindness, and generosity of spirit |
| Antonyms: | discourteous, hateful, mean, nasty, rude, sarcastic, severe, ungiving, ungracious, unkind, vulgar |
| Main Entry: | handsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attractive |
| Synonyms: | admirable, aristocratic, athletic, august, beautiful, becoming, clean-cut, comely, dapper, elegant, fair, fashionable, fine, good-looking, graceful, impressive, lovely, majestic, noble, personable, pulchritudinous, robust, sharp, smart, smooth, spruce, stately, strong, stylish, suave, virile, well-dressed, well-proportioned |
| Antonyms: | homely, ugly, unattractive |
| Main Entry: | oily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flattering |
| Synonyms: | bland*, cajoling, coaxing, compliant, fulsome, glib, gushing, hypocritical, ingratiating, insinuating, obsequious, plausible, servile, slick, smarmy, smooth, smooth-tongued, suave, supple, unctuous |
| Antonyms: | hateful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | refined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cultured, civilized |
| Synonyms: | aesthetic, civil, classy*, courteous, courtly, cultivated, delicate, discerning, discriminating, elegant, enlightened, exact, fastidious, fine, finespun, genteel, gracious, high-brow, high-minded, nice, plush, polished, polite, posh, precise, punctilious, restrained, ritzy, sensitive, snazzy, sophisticated, spiffy, suave, sublime, subtle, swanky*, tasteful, urbane, well-bred, well-mannered |
| Antonyms: | uncivilized, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sophisticated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cosmopolitan, cultured |
| Synonyms: | adult, artificial, been around, blasé, bored, citified, cool*, couth, cultivated, cynical, disenchanted, disillusioned, experienced, in, in the know, into*, jaded, jet-set, knowing, laid-back*, mature, mondaine, on to, practical, practiced, refined, schooled, seasoned, sharp, skeptical, smooth, stagy, streetwise, studied, suave, svelte, switched on, uptown, urbane, well-bred, wise to, wised up, with it, world-weary, worldly, worldly wise |
| Antonyms: | naive, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tactful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful, careful |
| Synonyms: | adroit, aware, cautious, civil, considerate, courteous, deft, delicate, diplomatic, discreet, gentle, judicious, observant, perceptive, poised, polished, polite, politic, prudent, sensitive, skilled, skillful, suave, subtle, sympathetic, tactical, understanding, urbane, wise |
| Antonyms: | careless, indiscreet, tactless, unthoughtful |
| Main Entry: | urbane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | civilized |
| Synonyms: | affable, balanced, bland, civil, cosmopolitan, courteous, cultivated, cultured, debonair, elegant, genteel, gracious, mannerly, metropolitan, obliging, poised, polished, polite, refined, smooth, sophisticated, suave, well-bred, well-mannered |
| Notes: | urban refers to a city; urbane means polished and smooth, as in a person's demeanor |
| Antonyms: | uncivilized, uncouth, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | gentlemanly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cultivated |
| Synonyms: | civil, civilized, courteous, gallant, genteel, gentlemanlike, honorable, mannerly, noble, obliging, polished, polite, refined, reputable, suave, urbane, well-bred, well-mannered |
| Antonyms: | rude, unbecoming |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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