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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct;
- Example: "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme"

2. according with custom or propriety;
- Example: "her becoming modesty"
- Example: "comely behavior"
- Example: "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"
- Example: "a decent burial"
- Example: "seemly behavior"
[syn: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, indelicate]
    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, decorous, seemly]