polite
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/pəˈlaɪt/
Definition of polite
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Well-mannered, civilized.
“It's not polite to use a mobile phone in a restaurant.”
“Try and be polite to Auntie Maria for once.”
“He marries, bows at court, and grows polite.”
“I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.”
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adj
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Well-mannered, civilized.
“It's not polite to use a mobile phone in a restaurant.”
“Try and be polite to Auntie Maria for once.”
“He marries, bows at court, and grows polite.”
“I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.”
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(obsolete)Smooth, polished, burnished.
“rays of light […]falling on […]a polite surface”
verb
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(obsolete, transitive)To polish; to refine; to render polite.
“those exercises plied, which polite men's spirits”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin polītus (“polished”), past participle of poliō (“to polish, smooth”); see polish.
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