Word Meanings - COURTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Relating or belonging to a court. 2. Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering. In courtly company or at my beads. Shak. 3. Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious. Macualay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COURTLY)

• Polite
• Elegant
• refined
• wellbred
• courteous
• obliging
• complaisant
• civil
• courtly
• polished
• genteel
• accomplished

Related words: (words related to COURTLY)

• POLITENESS
  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity;
• POLITE
  1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized
• OBLIGABLE
  Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• ACCOMPLISHED
  1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• ACCOMPLISHER
  One who accomplishes.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• CIVILIZED
  Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.
• CIVILIZE
  1. To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden 2. To admit as suitable to a civilized state.
• REFINEMENT
  1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
• GENTEELISH
  Somewhat genteel.
• REFIND
  To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.
• GENTEELLY
  In a genteel manner.
• COURTEOUSNESS
  The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
• REFINER
  One who, or that which, refines.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• UNPOLITE
  Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• DECIVILIZE
  To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag.
• UNCIVILTY
  In an uncivil manner.
• UNCIVILITY
  Incivility.
• DISOBLIGER
  One who disobliges.
• UNACCOMPLISHMENT
  The state of being unaccomplished. Milton.
• PREFINITE
  Prearranged. " Set and prefinite time." Holland.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.