Urbane 1100 Words You Need Week 18 Day 2

Urbane 1100 Words You Need

Urbane 1100 Words You Need

/ɜːˈbeɪn/ (adj)

showing politeness, courtesy and sophistication, civilized, witty and polished, suave, refined and cultured, courteous, elegant, genteel, sophisticated:

The concepts of social style and manners function essentially as a means of separating outsiders from insiders, of excluding and including, so here too Catullus adopts a relational or positional model for his poetry. But scholarship has generally taken a different direction with Catullus’ urbanity, trying to elicit an ethical component from the poetry by elaborating the principles of urbane behavior and their derivation from aesthetic principles: good poetry is like proper and urbane behavior, and we can read off the principles of one from the other. Speaking from the position of the urbane Catullus, scholars have shown themselves to be members of Catullus’ circle by virtue of their ability to grasp the ethical implications of the Catullan.

Source: The book, Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position

having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.
reflecting elegance, sophistication, etc., especially in expression: He maintained an urbane tone in his response.

Source: https://www.polishedbrands.com/

Antonym: unsophisticated, philistine

Noun: urbanity, urbaneness

Adverb: urbanely

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