decorous as an adjective: - 1
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decorous
adjective
1 decorous
Characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct.
Roget 928:
respecting
etc.
v.;
respectful,
deferential,
decorous,
reverential,
obsequious,
ceremonious,
bareheaded,
cap in hand,
on one's knees;
prostrate
etc.
(servile)
886.
respected
etc.
v.;
in high esteem,
in high estimation;
time-honored,
venerable,
emeritus.
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Roget 960:
pure,
undefiled,
modest,
delicate,
decent,
decorous;
virginibus puerisque [Lat.];
simon-pure;
chaste,
continent,
virtuous,
honest,
Platonic.
virgin,
unsullied;
cherry [Coll.].
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2 decorous
According with custom or propriety.
synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly.
Roget 924:
having a right to
etc.
v.;
entitled to;
claiming;
deserving,
meriting,
worthy of.
privileged,
allowed,
sanctioned,
warranted,
authorized;
ordained,
prescribed,
constitutional,
chartered,
enfranchised.
prescriptive,
presumptive;
absolute,
indefeasible;
unalienable,
inalienable;
imprescriptible†,
inviolable,
unimpeachable,
unchallenged;
sacrosanct.
due to,
merited,
deserved,
condign,
richly deserved.
allowable
etc.
(permitted)
760;
lawful,
licit,
legitimate,
legal;
legalized
etc.
(law)
963.
square,
unexceptionable,
right;
equitable
etc.
922;
due,
en r gle;
fit,
fitting;
correct,
proper,
meet,
befitting,
becoming,
seemly;
decorous;
creditable,
up to the mark,
right as a trivet;
just the thing,
quite the thing;
selon les r gles [Fr.].
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Moby thesaurus: Christian, accepted, according to Hoyle, acknowledged, admitted, appropriate, approved, au fait, becoming, befitting, being done, ceremonial, ceremonious, 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 ... show more.
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