Synonyms for decorous
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Demure — marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards…
demure, decent, modest, chaste, delicate, good, righteous, moral, menseful UK, virtuous
2. Seemly — appropriate, suitable
seemly, proper, felicitous, befitting, suitable, appropriate, becoming, fit, fitting, conformable, correct, right, comme il faut, apposite, expedient, apt, opportune, comely formal dated, meet dated
3. Dignified
Definitions
- adj. 1
Marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards; becoming, seemly.
- adj. 2
Appropriate, suitable.
Related words
- Word family
- decorously decorousness decor decorum
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The dignity and gravity of a patriarch would not be becoming to a child; at a funeral lively, cheery sociability would not be decorous, while noisy hilarity would not be decent; sumptuous display would not be suitable for a poor person.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- decent No decent human being could possibly believe this.
- modest I have modest tastes. Wealth does not interest me.
- chaste "I'm not an incel," Tom insisted. "I'm chaste."
- demure Skura's style of dress was described as demure.
By length
- 3 letters
- fit1, apt1
- 4 letters
- good1, meet1
- 5 letters
- right1, moral2, staid1
- 6 letters
- proper2, decent2, modest2, chaste1, sedate2, demure2, comely2, seemly
- 7 letters
- correct2, fitting2
- 8 letters
- becoming3, suitable3, delicate3, virtuous3, apposite, menseful
- 9 letters
- righteous2, dignified3, befitting3, expedient4, opportune3
- 10 letters
- respectful3, felicitous4
- 11 letters
- appropriate4, conformable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (moral2 = 2 syllables).