urbane.

Refined, courteous, and smoothly confident in social interaction.

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Words that belong together

• urbane host
• urbane manner

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The urbane host welcomed even his rival without a visible pause.

Her urbane manner concealed how little she trusted the gathering.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more urbane; superlative most urbane. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.