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  1. GENTEEL definition: 1. typical of a high social class: 2. being very polite, gentle, or graceful: 3. calm and gentle: . Learn more.

  2. The meaning of GENTEEL is having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish. How to use genteel in a sentence. Get Fancy With Genteel

  3. Although the adjective genteel means high-class and refined, it is often used today in a somewhat mocking tone, as though good manners and elegance are passé. Still, it would be nice if more people were a little more genteel. The word genteel comes from the Old French word gentil, "high-born, noble."

  4. GENTEEL meaning: 1. typical of a high social class: 2. being very polite, gentle, or graceful: 3. calm and gentle: . Learn more.

  5. genteel. (dʒentiːl ) 1. adjective. A genteel person is respectable and well-mannered, and comes or seems to come from a high social class. It was a place to which genteel families came in search of health and quiet. ...two elderly ladies with genteel manners and voices.

  6. (of people and their way of life) quiet and polite, often in an exaggerated way; from, or pretending to be from, a high social class. a genteel manner. Her genteel accent irritated me. He lived in genteel poverty (= trying to keep the style of a high social class, but with little money). Definitions on the go.

  7. affectedly proper or refined; excessively polite. respectable, polite, and well-bred. a genteel old lady. appropriate to polite or fashionable society. genteel behaviour.