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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. behavior that conforms to social conventions of the time;
- Example: "it is not good form to brag about winning"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Form \Form\ (f[=o]rm; in senses 8 & 9, often f[=o]rm in England), n. [OE. & F. forme, fr. L. forma; cf. Skr. dhariman. Cf. Firm.] 1. The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance. [1913 Webster] The form of his visage was changed. --Dan. iii. 19. [1913 Webster] And woven close close, both matter, form, and style. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government. [1913 Webster] 3. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer. [1913 Webster] Those whom form of laws Condemned to die. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. [1913 Webster] Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty. [1913 Webster] The earth was without form and void. --Gen. i. 2. [1913 Webster] He hath no form nor comeliness. --Is. liii. 2. [1913 Webster] 6. A shape; an image; a phantom. [1913 Webster] 7. That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model. [1913 Webster] 8. A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society. "Ladies of a high form." --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster] 9. The seat or bed of a hare. [1913 Webster] As in a form sitteth a weary hare. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 10. (Print.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase. [1913 Webster] 11. (Fine Arts) The boundary line of a material object. In (painting), more generally, the human body. [1913 Webster] 12. (Gram.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms. [1913 Webster] 13. (Crystallog.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. [1913 Webster] 14. (Metaph.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law. [1913 Webster] 15. Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of. [1913 Webster] 16. (Biol.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant. [1913 Webster] Good form or Bad form, the general appearance, condition or action, originally of horses, afterwards of persons; as, the members of a boat crew are said to be in good form when they pull together uniformly. The phrases are further used colloquially in description of conduct or manners in society; as, it is not good form to smoke in the presence of a lady. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

good form n 1: behavior that conforms to social conventions of the time; "it is not good form to brag about winning"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

46 Moby Thesaurus words for "good form": amenities, bienseance, civilities, civility, comity, conformity, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, correctness, courtliness, custom, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, diplomatic code, elegance, elegancies, etiquette, exquisite manners, form, formalities, formality, good manners, manners, mores, natural politeness, point of etiquette, politeness, politesse, proprieties, propriety, protocol, punctilio, quiet good manners, rules of conduct, seemliness, social code, social conduct, social convention, social graces, social procedures, social usage