Polite means showing regards for others in manners, speech, and behavior. Since you are a polite dinner guest, you thank the host for inviting you and, even though you think the chicken is not cooked to perfection, you tell her you are enjoying the meal.
Smooth; polished.
Adjective
showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.
Adjective
not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn''t like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham
Adjective S.
marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
v.
Smooth; polished.
v.
Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred;
courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil.
v.
Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish;
as, polite literature.
v. t.
To polish; to refine; to render polite.
Polite
Rays of light falling on a polite surface.2.
He marries, bows at court, and grows polite.3.
Polite
Smooth; polished.
To polish; to refine; to render polite.
Usage Examples
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Other Usage ExamplesAn armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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