Genteel
Genteel adjective - Having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living.
Usage example: she grew up in genteel old Savannah
Nearby Word: genteelly
Uncultured
Uncultured adjective - Lacking in refinement or good taste.
Usage example: an unlettered and uncultured society that still had the manners of the frontier
Genteel is an antonym for uncultured.
Both words in one sentence
- In the game Pirates and Plunder, in the rules for port cities, it is explained that when sailors come ashore from the uncultured environment of shipboard, what they most want is to enjoy polite conversation over a cup of tea with a genteel young lady.
Source: Radar / Other
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Uncultured and Genteel. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/genteel/uncultured
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Uncultured or Genteel. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/genteel/uncultured.
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