IMPROPRIETY - Definition

Meaning of IMPROPRIETY

Pronunciation:		`impru'prIitee
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] an act of undue intimacy [n] an indecent or improper act [n] an improper demeanor

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	Synonyms:	familiarity, improperness, indecency, indecorum, liberty

	Antonyms:	correctitude, properness, propriety

	See Also:	behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, inappropriateness, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, obscenity, wrongness

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Im`propri"ety\, n.; pl. {Improprieties}. [L. improprietas; cf. F. impropri['e]t['e]. See {Improper}.] 1. The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners. 2. That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of language. But every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities. --Johnson. Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded. --Swift.

Thesaurus Terms

	Related Terms:	aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, anomaly, atrocity, Babbittry, bad taste, badness, barbarism, barbarousness, blunder, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, breach, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption, crime, crime against humanity, criminality, crudeness, cumbrousness, deadly sin, delinquency, dereliction, deviance, deviancy, discourtesy, disentitlement, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disruption, disruptiveness, dysphemism, empty claim, empty title, enormity, erroneousness, error, evil, excess, failure, false claim, falseness, falsity, fault, faux pas, felony, frowned-upon behavior, gaffe, gaucherie, genocide, Gothicism, gracelessness, grossness, guilty act, harshness, heaviness, heavy sin, high camp, hooliganism, horseplay, ill-balanced sentences, illegality, immodesty, immorality, imprecision, improperness, impurity, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, incompatibility, inconcinnity, incongruity, incongruousness, inconvenience, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inelegance, inelegancy, inequitableness, inequity, inexactitude, inexactness, inexpedience, inexpiable sin, infelicity, infraction, iniquitousness, iniquity, injury, injustice, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, invalid claim, irregularity, irrelevance, irrelevancy, kitsch, lack of claim, lack of finish, lack of polish, lapse, lasciviousness, lateness, leadenness, lewdness, localism, low camp, maladjustment, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, mesalliance, minor wrong, misalliance, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, mistake, mortal sin, naughtiness, no claim, nonfeasance, nonsanctioned behavior, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, philistinism, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, poor taste, pop, pop culture, prematurity, roughhouse, roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism, rudeness, ruffianism, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, sinfulness, slang, slip, slipshod construction, stiltedness, suggestiveness, taboo word, tastelessness, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, turgidity, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchastity, uncongeniality, uncouthness, undeservedness, undeservingness, undueness, unentitledness, uneuphoniousness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, ungracefulness, unjustness, unlawfulness, unmeetness, unmeritedness, unpropitiousness, unrefinement, unrighteousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unutterable sin, unwieldiness, vandalism, venial sin, vice, violation, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongfulness, wrongness

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