" genteel "

1: following the established traditions of refined society and good taste;

  * e.g., " ... those bygone days when young women were taught how to drink tea while wearing long gloves and other genteel ways of behaving "

•  Synonyms : 

•  befitting,

•  correct,

•  de rigueur,

•  decent,

•  decorous,

•  nice,

•  polite,

•  proper,

•  respectable,

•  seemly

•  Antonyms : 

•  improper,

•  inappropriate,

•  incorrect,

•  indecent,

•  indecorous,

•  indelicate,

•  unbecoming,

•  ungenteel,

•  unseemly

2: having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living;

  * e.g., " ... she grew up in genteel old Savannah "

•  Synonyms : 

•  accomplished,

•  civilized,

•  couth,

•  cultivated,

•  cultured,

•  polished,

•  refined

•  Antonyms : 

•  barbaric,

•  barbarous,

•  philistine,

•  uncivilized,

•  uncultured,

•  ungenteel,

•  unpolished,

•  unrefined

3: of high birth, rank, or station;

  * e.g., " ... the genteel ladies never mixed with the servants "

•  Synonyms : 

•  aristocratic,

•  blue-blooded,

•  gentle,

•  grand,

•  great,

•  highborn,

•  highbred,

•  noble,

•  patrician,

•  silk-stocking,

•  upper-class,

•  upper-crust,

•  wellborn

•  Antonyms : 

•  baseborn,

•  common,

•  humble,

•  ignoble,

•  low,

•  lower-class,

•  lowly,

•  mean,

•  nonaristocratic,

•  plebeian,

•  ungenteel