Meaning of DECOROUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'dekurus
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- [adj] characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme"
- [adj] according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"
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| | Synonyms: | | becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, in good taste(p), sedate, seemly, staid |
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| | Antonyms: | | indecorous, indelicate | | |
| | See Also: | | proper | |
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| | Definition: | | \De*co"rous\ (?; 277), a. [L. dec[=o]rus, fr. decor
comeliness, beauty; akin to decere. See {Decent}, and cf.
{Decorum}.]
Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion;
marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as,
a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a
judge.
A decorous pretext the war. --Motley.
-- {De*co"rous*ly}, adv. -- {De*co"rous*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | accepted, according to Hoyle, acknowledged, admitted, appropriate, approved, au fait, becoming, befitting, being done, ceremonial, ceremonious, Christian, civil, civilized, comely, comme il faut, condign, conformable, conforming, conventional, correct, customary, de rigueur, decent, delicate, demure, dignified, done, due, earnest, elegant, felicitous, fit, fitting, formal, frowning, genteel, gentlemanly, good, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, happy, hieratic, kosher, ladylike, liturgic, long-faced, mannerly, meet, modest, nice, normal, normative, orthodox, polished, polite, pompous, prim, proper, punctilious, received, recognized, refined, respectable, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigid, ritual, ritualistic, sacerdotal, seasonable, sedate, seemly, serious, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, stately, stiff, stone-faced, straight-faced, stuffy, suitable, thoughtful, traditional, unsmiling, urbane, weighty, well-behaved, well-mannered |
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