• Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded
    as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or
    lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste;
    polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.


    Genteel meaning & definition 1 of Genteel.


  • Characterized by exaggerated or affected politeness, refinement, or respectability.

    Genteel meaning & definition 2 of Genteel.


  • Polite,[refined] or [respectable],often in an affected or [ostentatious] way

    Genteel meaning & definition 3 of Genteel.


  • typical of a high social class:

    Genteel meaning & definition 4 of Genteel.

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