Word Meanings - URBANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of URBANE)

• affable
• Courteous
• accessible
• condescending
• conversible
• gracious
• sociable
• gentle
• complaisant
• urbane
• polite
• easy
• approachable
• Civic
• Municipal
• corporate
• oppidan
• Civil
• Well-mannered
• political
• courteous
• well-bred
• obliging
• accommodating
• respectful

Related words: (words related to URBANE)

• URBANE
  Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
• 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.
• CIVIC
  Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs. Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen
• CORPORATE
  1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. 2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. "Corporate property."
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• MUNICIPALLY
  In a municipal relation or condition.
• CIVICISM
  The principle of civil government.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• SOCIABLENESS
  The quality of being sociable.
• GENTLEWOMAN
  1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
• APPROACHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
• OPPIDAN
  Of or pertaining to a town. Howell.
• MUNICIPALISM
  Municipal condition.
• 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.
• ACCOMMODATION
  1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
• COURTEOUSNESS
  The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• ANTHROPOLITE
  A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• BICORPORATE
  Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• TRICORPORAL; TRICORPORATE
  Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.
• UNPOLITE
  Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• IMPOLITICAL
  Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.
• DECIVILIZE
  To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag.
• UNCIVILTY
  In an uncivil manner.