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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriate behavior, good manners |
| Synonyms: | breeding, civility, conduct, convenance, convention, correctitude, correctness, courtliness, decency, demeanor, deportment, dignity, etiquette, form, formality, gentility, good grace, gravity, habits, order, orderliness, politeness, politesse, properness, propriety, protocol, punctilio, respectability, seemliness, tact, usage |
| Antonyms: | bad behavior, bad manners, impoliteness, indecency, rudeness |
| Main Entry: | ceremony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | etiquette |
| Synonyms: | ceremonial, conformity, decorum, form, formal courtesy, formalism, formality, nicety, politeness, pomp, preciseness, prescription, propriety, protocol, strictness, usage |
| Main Entry: | correctness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | propriety |
| Synonyms: | bon ton, civility, correctitude, decency, decorousness, decorum, fitness, good breeding, order, orderliness, properness, rightness, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | impropriety, incorrectness, infidelity, unacceptableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness |
| Main Entry: | decency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | respectable behavior |
| Synonyms: | appropriateness, ceremoniousness, civility, conventionality, correctness, courtesy, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, fittingness, formality, good form, good manners, honesty, modesty, propriety, respectability, righteousness, seemliness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | immodesty, immorality, impropriety, indecency, obsceneness, obscenity |
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
| Synonyms: | address, cachet, character, consequence, courtliness, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, loftiness, majesty, merit, morality, nobleness, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, seemliness, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, stateliness, station, stature, status, sublimity, virtue, worth, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | lowliness |
| Main Entry: | etiquette |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manners, politeness |
| Synonyms: | amenities, civility, code, convention, courtesy, customs, decency, decorum, deportment, dignity, form, formalities, good behavior, mores, p's and q's, politesse, proper behavior, propriety, protocol, rules, seemliness, social graces, suavities, usage |
| Antonyms: | bad manners |
| Main Entry: | fairness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice |
| Synonyms: | candor, charitableness, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, disinterestedness, due, duty, equitableness, equity, exactitude, fair shake, fair-mindedness, give and take, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, justness, legitimacy, moderation, open-mindedness, propriety, rationality, reasonableness, right, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity |
| Antonyms: | inequity, injustice, partiality, unfairness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | fitness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, admissibility, agreeableness, applicability, appositeness, aptitude, aptness, assimilation, auspiciousness, compatibility, competence, concurrency, congeniality, congruousness, consistency, consonance, convenience, correspondence, decency, decorum, eligibility, expediency, harmony, keeping, order, patness, pertinence, preparedness, propriety, qualification, readiness, relevancy, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness, suitability, timeliness |
| Antonyms: | inappropriateness, unsuitability |
| Main Entry: | form |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accepted procedure; ceremony |
| Synonyms: | behavior, by the book, by the numbers, canon, ceremonial, channels, conduct, convenance, convention, custom, decorum, done thing, etiquette, fashion, formality, habit, law, layout, manner, manners, method, mode, practice, precept, proceeding, process, propriety, protocol, regulation, rite, ritual, ropes, rule, setup, style, usage, way |
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