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courteous
Synonyms and Antonyms of courteous
- their customer service department always gives courteous responses, even to rude people
attentive, careful, considerate, nice, solicitous, thoughtful
chivalrous, civilized, courtly, gallant, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, ladylike
ceremonial, ceremonious, red-carpet
couth, formal, smooth, suave, unctuous, urbane
deferential, dutiful, respectful, submissive, yielding
acceptable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, comme il faut, correct, decent, decorous, fit, fitting, good, meet, proper, respectable, right, seemly, suitable
affable, cordial, friendly, genial, hospitable, pleasant, sociable
heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless
audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, disrespectful, impertinent, impudent, insolent, lippy, saucy, shameless
boorish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, loutish, uncouth, vulgar
casual, informal, unceremonious
improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, uncalled-for, unrespectable, unseemly
Synonym Discussion of courteous
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- owed the questioner a civil reply
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- if you can't be pleasant, at least be polite
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- clerks who were unfailingly courteous to customers
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- a gallant suitor of the old school
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- a chivalrous display of duty
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