Cavalier vs Mannerly - What's the difference?
cavalier | mannerly | Related terms |
Not caring enough about something important.
* 2003 , Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything'', ''Black Swan , pg.46:
High-spirited.
Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.
A military man serving on horse.
A sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
One of the court party in the time of King Charles I, as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.
A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
A well mannered man; a gentleman.
polite, having good manners
* 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
* 1861, Charlotte Yonge, The Young Step-Mother
As adjectives the difference between cavalier and mannerly
is that cavalier is not caring enough about something important while mannerly is polite, having good manners.As a noun cavalier
is a military man serving on horse.cavalier
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The very dignified officials were confused by his cavalier manner.
- Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those school-room maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way.
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Anagrams
* ----mannerly
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Lucetta, as thou lov'st me, let me have / What thou think'st meet, and is most mannerly .
- ...but Genevieve's laugh roused her again, partly because she thought it less mannerly than accorded with the girl's usual politeness.
