Word.ws English Dictionary

genteelize

genteelize verb: to make genteel.

Verb

genteelize (third-person singular simple present genteelizes, present participle genteelizing, simple past and past participle genteelized)

  1. (transitive) To make genteel.

Forms of genteelize

third-person singular presentgenteelizes
present participlegenteelizing
past participlegenteelized
pastgenteelized

Origin of genteelize

From genteel + -ize.

Questions about genteelize

What does genteelize mean?
Genteelize means to make genteel.
What part of speech is genteelize?
Genteelize is a verb.
What is the past tense of genteelize?
The past tense of genteelize is genteelized.

Words near genteelize in the dictionary

  1. genteelest
  2. genteelise
  3. genteelish
  4. genteelism
  5. genteelisms
  6. genteelize
  7. genteelized
  8. genteelizes
  9. genteelizing
  10. genteelly
  11. genteelness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: genteelize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “genteelize.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/genteelize. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.