3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mannered \Man"nered\, a. 1. Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self; as, a well-mannered child. [1913 Webster] Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. [1913 Webster] His style is in some degree mannered and confined. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: mannered adj : having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 53 Moby Thesaurus words for "mannered": Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allusive, artificial, behaved, behavioral, behaviored, behaviorist, behavioristic, conscious, contrived, demeanored, elaborate, elaborated, euphuistic, figurative, figured, flowery, high-hat, highfalutin, histrionic, hoity-toity, hyperelegant, hypocritical, insincere, la-di-da, maniere, metaphorical, ornamented, overacted, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overnice, overrefined, pompous, posed, precieuse, precieux, precious, pretentious, pseudo, referential, stagy, stiff, stilted, studied, theatrical, trolatitious, tropological, unnatural
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