Word Meanings - DEMEANOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Management; treatment; conduct. God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton. 2. Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien. His demeanor was singularly pleasing. Macaulay. The men, as

Additional info about word: DEMEANOR

1. Management; treatment; conduct. God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton. 2. Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien. His demeanor was singularly pleasing. Macaulay. The men, as usual, liked her artless kindness and simple refined demeanor. Thackeray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMEANOR)

• Behavior
• Conduct
• bearing
• demeanor
• proceeding
• comportment
• action
• manner
• deportment
• Breeding
• Nurture
• education
• training
• discipline
• instruction
• manners
• air
• decorum
• Carriage
• Transportation
• conveyance
• conduct
• walk
• gait
• mien
• behavior
• vehicle
• Deportment
• carriage
• movement
• character
• Guise
• Aspect
• garb
• semblance
• plea
• dress
• appearance
• fashion

Related words: (words related to DEMEANOR)

• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• FASHIONABLY
  In a fashionable manner.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• EDUCATIONIST
  One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• 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
• PROCEEDING
  The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. Blackstone. Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn. -- Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction. (more info) 1. The act
• DISCIPLINER
  One who disciplines.
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• GUISE
  1. Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself. Chaucer. The swain replied, "It never was
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.