Decorous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Decorous \Dec"or*ous\ (d[e^]k"[-o]r*[u^]s or d[-e]*k[=o]"r[u^]s;
     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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           A decorous pretext the war.              --Motley.
     -- {De*co"rous*ly}, adv. -- {De*co"rous*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  decorous
       adj 1: characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in
              manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in
              the extreme" [ant: {indecorous}]
       2: 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" [syn: {becoming}, {comely}, {comme
          il faut}, {decent}, {seemly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "decorous":
     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