Adjective polite has 3 senses
  1. polite - showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.
    Antonyms:
    impolite, bratty, brattish, ill-mannered, rude, unmannered, unmannerly, discourteous, ungracious, unparliamentary
  2. civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite - marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
    Antonym: unrefined (indirect, via refined)
  3. civil, polite - not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham
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