gentlemanly
gentlemanly adjective: of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a gentleman or gentlemen.
Adjective
gentlemanly (comparative gentlemanlier, superlative gentlemanliest)
- Of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a gentleman or gentlemen.
- Best of all, he ought to imagine his fellow-gamblers and the rest of the mob which stands trembling over a coin to be equally rich and gentlemanly with himself, and playing solely for recreation and pleasure.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter II, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/II)
- With an election to cover and the soccer season in full swing, the sudoku newspaper rivalry stayed relatively gentlemanly until this month, when some of the last sudoku holdouts, including The Independent and The Guardian, joined the fray.2005 May 23, Eric Pfanner, “Puzzling phenomenon sweeps British papers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2021
- Synonyms:
- gentlemanlike
Adverb
gentlemanly (comparative more gentlemanly, superlative most gentlemanly)
- In the manner or with the behavior of a gentleman; with social grace, politely.
- He went gentlemanly dressed in East Virginia style, wore a high-top silk hat, as had lawyer Park, and sported a gold headed walking cane.1938, Charles A. Johnson, A Narrative History of Wise County, Virginia, page 165
- Synonyms:
- gentlemanlikely, gentlemanlily
gentlemanly meaning in Hindi, Malayalam and Sanskrit
gentlemanly in Hindi
- gentlemanly, courteous
- सज्जन sajjan
gentlemanly in Malayalam
- ആര്യമായി, വിനീതമായി, മാന്യലക്ഷണമായ, കുലീനമായ
gentlemanly in Sanskrit
- gentlemanly, well-born, respectable
- सज्जन sajjana
Examples of gentlemanly in a sentence
- Some schools bump up everyone’s grades, some just allow for more As and others all but eliminate the once-gentlemanly C.2010 June 22, Catherine Rampell, “In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24...
- Anyon Kay, in his reminiscences of Horwich in the early 20th century, remembers a Mr Horsfield as stationmaster - "a gentlemanly character who took his job very seriously".2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
Synonyms of gentlemanly
Forms of gentlemanly
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | gentlemanlier |
| superlative | gentlemanliest |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more gentlemanly |
| superlative | most gentlemanly |
Origin of gentlemanly
From Middle English gentilmanly; equivalent to gentleman + -ly (adjectival suffix).
From Middle English gentilmanly; equivalent to gentleman + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Words formed from gentlemanly
Questions about gentlemanly
- What does gentlemanly mean?
- Gentlemanly means of, being, pertaining to, or resembling a gentleman or gentlemen.
- What is gentlemanly in Hindi?
- Gentlemanly in Hindi is सज्जन (sajjan). See Gentlemanly meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use gentlemanly in a sentence?
- Some schools bump up everyone’s grades, some just allow for more As and others all but eliminate the once-gentlemanly C.
- What part of speech is gentlemanly?
- Gentlemanly can be an adjective or an adverb.
Words near gentlemanly in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gentlemanly (page history and authors); सज्जन (Hindi) (page history and authors); gentlemanly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सज्जन (Sanskrit) (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.
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