adjective (politer, politest)
HELPNOTE more polite and most polite are also common
1 having or showing good manners and respect for the feelings of others
SYNCOURTEOUS:
Please be polite to our guests. * We were all too polite to object.
OPPIMPOLITE
2 socially correct but not always sincere:
I don't know how to make polite conversation. * The performance was greeted with polite applause.
3 [onlybeforenoun] from a class of society that believes it is better than others:
'Bum' is not a word we use in polite company.
politely adverb:
The receptionist smiled politely.
politeness noun [U]:
He stood up out of politeness and offered her his seat.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for polite is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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