See decorous on Wiktionary
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Decōrus is derived from decor (“elegrance, grace; charm beauty”) + -us (suffix forming adjectives); and decor is from decēre, the present active infinitive of decet (“to adorn; to be decent; to be proper or suitable”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to perceive; to take”).\n* Possibly also influenced by Late Latin decorōsus (“beautiful; elegant”), from decoris + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of’ forming adjectives from nouns). Decoris is the genitive singular of decus (“beauty, grace, ornament, splendour; distinction, glory, honour”), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱos (“that which is proper”), from *deḱ- (see above).", "forms": [ { "form": "more decorous", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most decorous", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "decorous (comparative more decorous, superlative most decorous)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "hyphenation": [ "dec‧or‧ous" ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "related": [ { "_dis1": "0 0", "word": "decor" }, { "_dis1": "0 0", "word": "decorum" }, { "_dis1": "0 0", "word": "dedecorous" } ], "senses": [ { "antonyms": [ { "word": "dedecorous" }, { "word": "indecorous" }, { "word": "undecorous" } ], "categories": [ { "_dis": "63 37", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { 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inclines neither to the right nor left—it is a ſtraightforvvard buſineſs, and they vvho are earneſtly purſuing their road, may bound over many decorous prejudices, vvithout leaving modeſty behind.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1822 October 15, Quevedo Redivivus [pseudonym; Lord Byron], “The Vision of Judgment”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: […] John Hunt, […], published 1823, →OCLC, stanza XCV, page 35:", "text": "[S]ome grumbling voice, / Which now and then will make a slight inroad / Upon decorous silence, […]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In which Two Lights are Put Out”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 545:", "text": "There came a day when the round of decorous pleasures and solemn gaieties in which Mr. Jos Sedley’s family indulged, was interrupted by an event which happens in most houses.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1858 April 25 (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “April 25th [1858]”, in Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume I, London: Strahan & Co., […], published 1871, →OCLC, page 222:", "text": "On these beautiful moonlight nights, Rome appears to keep awake and stirring, though in a quiet and decorous way.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1876, James Russell Lowell, “Wordsworth”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 224:", "text": "To this Defensio Wordsworth afterward added a supplement, and the two form a treatise of permanent value for philosophic statement and decorous English.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 223:", "text": "But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter I, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part I, page 3:", "text": "The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards; becoming, seemly." ], "id": "en-decorous-en-adj-1YzJTAoz", "links": [ [ "Marked", "mark#Verb" ], [ "behaviour", "behavior" ], [ "manners", "manners" ], [ "regarded", "regard#Verb" ], [ "proper", "proper#Adjective" ], [ "tasteful", "tasteful" ], [ "accordance", "accordance" ], [ "accepted", "accepted#Adjective" ], [ "standards", "standard#Noun" ], [ "becoming", "becoming#Adjective" ], [ "seemly", 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"it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "decoroso" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "decente" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "dignitoso" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "lt", "lang": "Lithuanian", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "padorùs" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "mt", "lang": "Maltese", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "dekoruż" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "mt", "lang": "Maltese", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "dinjituż" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "gv", "lang": "Manx", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "beasagh" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "mn", "lang": "Mongolian", "roman": "obug-a", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "ᠣᠪᠤᠭᠠ" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "mn", "lang": "Mongolian", "roman": "ovoo", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "овоо" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "sømmelig" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "nn", "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "sømeleg" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "nn", "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "sømmeleg" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "ang", "lang": "Old English", "note": "of dress", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "sideful" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "stosowny" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "decoros" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "cuviincios" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "čínnyj", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "чи́нный" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "blagopristójnyj", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "благопристо́йный" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "porjádočnyj", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "поря́дочный" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "prilíčnyj", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "прили́чный" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "pristójnyj", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "присто́йный" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "beusach" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "decoroso" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "roman": "prystójnyj", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "присто́йний" }, { "_dis1": "96 4", "alt": "端莊", "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "raw_tags": [ "of women" ], "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "tags": [ "formal", "literary" ], "word": "đoan trang" } ] }, { "antonyms": [ { "word": "unsuitable" } ], "categories": [ { "_dis": "53 47", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -ous", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "52 48", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "54 46", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Arabic translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "48 52", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Armenian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "44 56", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "43 57", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Dutch translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "46 54", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Faroese translations", 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or, The Second Part of the Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity: […], London: […] James Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, book I, page 225:", "text": "[B]oth the truth vvhich the Prophecy aims at is faithfully conveyed, and that decorous embelliſhment in the external Cortex of the Prophecy punctually obſerved.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1680, Henry More, chapter VIII, in Apocalypsis Apocalypseos; or The Revelation of St John the Divine Unveiled. 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"lang": "German", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "geziemend" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "schicklich" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "semnós", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "σεμνός" }, { "code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "roman": "śālīn", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "शालीन" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards", "word": "oiriúnach" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, 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