Definitions for genteel

genteel gen·teel

Spelling: [jen-teel]
IPA: /dʒɛnˈtil/

Genteel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in genteel (eeeglnt).

Definitions for genteel

adjective

  1. belonging or suited to polite society.
  2. well-bred or refined; polite; elegant; stylish.
  3. affectedly or pretentiously polite, delicate, etc.

Origin of genteel

1590-1600; French gentil; see gentle

Examples for genteel

Every one seemed to think it wouldn't be genteel to eat after the disaster.

He chose the most genteel, however; he became a wine merchant.

Mischievous, more bite than bark in the sense that it was mordant with minimal rhetoric, Heaney was not genteel.

There are many boys of genteel family, who would have been glad of the chance.

The Daily Pic: Steve Mumford's genteel watercolors capture the hard truths of Gitmo.

This racial balancing act makes Belle one of the most genteel yet uncomfortable depictions of racism ever to grace the screen.

Their conversation, though no doubt as genteel as before, was all of broken hearts.

It was the host's profound misfortune to have been overcome by that too genteel lady.

These nonchalant brutalities seem at first at odds with the genteel decorum that mostly cloaks late-19th century culture.

Bennett is genteel, an elite solider, someone who is as comfortable with secularism as he is with his religiosity.

Word Value for genteel
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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