Corteous vs Urbane - What's the difference?
corteous | urbane |
(of a man) Courteous, polite, refined, and suave.
* 1949 : George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p12
As an adjective urbane is
(of a man) courteous, polite, refined, and suave.corteous
Not English
Corteous has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'corteous':
csardas, czardas, courteous, charities, creates, chariots, critics, cowards, curettes, curates, charades, cortices, carrots, critiques, crotchets, cardigans, crutches, corrodes, cohorts, corrades, crataegus, curtsies, cheroots, charettes, crotches, corteges, czaritsas, cowrites, charets, corridas, cortexes, cordgrass, cardias, corridos, chordees, cardies, czaritzas, charrets, caretakes, ceroids, cartages, cariads, criticks, cartways, crowdies, cardcases, crewets, cowardies, creutzers, corticous, corodies, corrodies, crowths, curiets, cerites, cardiacs, coreids, caratages, cowardes, chrootsurbane
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O’Brien’s urbane manner and his prize-fighter’s physique.