urbane
ur-BAYNadjMeaning polished, courteous and at ease in any social setting
Memory hook URBAN + E: city-polished manners. At the museum gala, Victor greets each guest by name, bows, and tells just the right joke. His manners are city-polished: he is urbane.
The urbane host remembered every guest’s name and made each one feel welcome.
In context Though he had grown up on a remote ranch, Marcus became an urbane diplomat, as comfortable at a formal dinner as at a cattle auction.
Similar polished, sophisticated, refined, worldly
Opposite boorish, uncouth, crude
From Latin urbanus, “of the city,” from urbs, city; city manners were thought to be polished.