Debonair vs Polite - What's the difference?
debonair | polite |
(obsolete) Gracious, courteous.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
(especially of men) Charming, confident and carefully dressed.
Well-mannered, civilized.
* (Alexander Pope)
* , chapter=4
, title= (obsolete) Smooth, polished, burnished.
* (Isaac Newton)
(obsolete) To polish; to refine; to render polite.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between debonair and polite
is that debonair is (obsolete) gracious, courteous while polite is (obsolete) smooth, polished, burnished.As adjectives the difference between debonair and polite
is that debonair is (obsolete) gracious, courteous while polite is well-mannered, civilized.As a verb polite is
(obsolete|transitive) to polish; to refine; to render polite.debonair
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Alternative forms
* debonaireAdjective
(en adjective)- Let be that Ladie debonaire , / Thou recreant knight, and soone thy selfe prepaire / To battell [...].
Anagrams
*polite
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- He marries, bows at court, and grows polite .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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 .}}
- rays of light falling on a polite surface
Usage notes
* The one-word comparative form (politer) and superlative form (politest) exist, but are less common than their two-word counterparts (term) and (term).Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* impolite * rudeDerived terms
* over-polite * politeness * polite societyVerb
(polit)- (Ray)