<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of, relating to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society.</li><li>of the commonwealth or state: civil affairs.</li><li>of citizens in their ordinary capacity, or of the ordinary life and affairs of citizens, as distinguished from military and ecclesiastical life and affairs.</li><li>of the citizen as an individual: civil liberty.</li><li>befitting a citizen: a civil duty.</li><li>of, or in a condition of, social order or organized government; civilized: civilized: civil peoples.</li><li>adhering to the norms of polite social intercourse; not deficient in common courtesy: After their disagreement, their relations were civil though not cordial.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>courtly</li><li>urbane</li><li>affable</li><li>suave</li><li>complaisant</li><li>gracious</li><li>deferential</li><li>respectful</li></ul><p><strong>Antonyms</strong></p><ul><li>churlish</li><li>boorish</li></ul><p><strong>Marked by benevolence</strong></p><ul><li>He was a very civil sort, and we liked him immediately.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>courtly</li><li>urbane</li><li>affable</li><li>suave</li><li>complaisant</li><li>gracious</li><li>deferential</li><li>respectful</li></ul><p><strong>Antonyms</strong></p><ul><li>churlish</li><li>boorish</li></ul><p><strong>(Of divisions of time)</strong></p><ul><li>legally recognized in the ordinary affairs of life: the civil year.</li></ul><p><strong>Of or relating to civil law.</strong></p>