Word Meanings - DECORUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable. Negligent of the duties and decorums of

Additional info about word: DECORUM

Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable. Negligent of the duties and decorums of his station. Hallam. If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom. Shak. Syn. -- Decorum, Dignity. Decorum, in accordance with its etymology, is that which is becoming in outward act or appearance; as, the decorum of a public assembly. Dignity springs from an inward elevation of soul producing a corresponding effect on the manners; as, dignity of personal appearance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECORUM)

• Breeding
• Nurture
• education
• training
• discipline
• instruction
• manners
• air
• demeanor
• decorum
• Shame
• Abashment
• humiliation
• modesty
• shamefacedness
• decency
• reproach
• dishonor
• ignominy
• contempt
• degradation
• discredit
• dispraise

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DECORUM)

• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend

Related words: (words related to DECORUM)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• IGNOMINY
  a deprivation of one's good name); in- not + nomen name: cf. F. 1. Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake,
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• DISCREDITABLE
  Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• EDUCATIONIST
  One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• ABASHMENT
  The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• DISCIPLINER
  One who disciplines.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• DISCREDIT
  1. The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit. 2. Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• MODESTY
  1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
• EDUCATION
  The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• INDECENCY
  1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. 2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
• INTERBREED
  To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.