Translation Japanese English: 恭しい

1 acute, airy, civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, discriminating, elegant, fine, genteel, graceful, incisive, keen, knifelike, ladylike, mincing, niminy-piminy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, polite, prim, refined, sharp, slender, slight, slim, svelte, tenuous, twee.

2 affable, amiable, cordial, courteous, friendly, genial, gracious, kind, nice, warm.

3 artistic, civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, elegant, genteel, graceful, polite.

4 benignant, courteous, gracious, nice.

5 careful, courteous, deliberate, gracious, heedful, measured, nice, polite, thorough.

6 civil, civilised, civilized, courteous, cultivated, cultured, genteel, gracious, nice, orderly, polite.

7 civil, civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, polite, refined, svelte, urbane.

8 civil, civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite, well behaved, well-behaved.

9 civilised, civilized, courteous, cultivated, cultured, genteel, gracious, nice, polite, respectful.

10 civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, dainty, elegant, exquisite, fine, genteel, graceful, neat, polished, polite, refined, svelte, tasteful, urbane.

11 civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, dandified, dandyish, dapper, dashing, fashionable, foppish, genteel, jaunty, natty, polite, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce, stylish.

12 civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, gentle, graceful, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, polite, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike.

13 courteous, dainty, decent, gracious, nice, overnice, prissy, skillful, squeamish.

14 courteous, gracious, hospitable, kind, nice, warm.

15 courteous, gracious, nice, serious.

16 respectful, reverential, venerating.