Word Meanings - DECOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: DECOROUS

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECOROUS)

• Becoming
• Beseeming
• neat
• fit
• proper
• decorous
• comely
• seemly
• befitting
• graceful
• decent
• suitable
• improving
• Correct \adj true
• exact
• faultless
• accurate
• right
• Fit
• Decent
• meet
• apt
• fitting
• adapted
• appropriate
• becoming
• qualified
• congruous
• peculiar
• particular
• prepared
• adequate
• calculated
• contrived
• expedient
• ripe
• Seemly
• convenient

Related words: (words related to DECOROUS)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• COMELY
  comeliche, AS. cymlic; cyme suitable + 1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• QUALIFIED
  1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
• QUALIFIER
  , One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.