| Main Entry: | decorum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriate behavior, good manners |
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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 |
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bad behavior, bad manners, impoliteness, indecency, rudeness |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | formality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convention, custom |
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academism, ceremony, convenance, conventionality, form, gesture, liturgy, matter of form, officialism, procedure, red tape, rite, ritual, rituality, rubric, rule, service, solemnity, solemnness, stereotype, tradition |
Antonyms: |
informality |
| Main Entry: | practice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | routine, usual procedure |
Synonyms: |
convenance, convention, custom, fashion, form, habit, habitude, manner, method, mode, praxis, proceeding, process, rule, system, tradition, trick, usage, use, usefulness, utility, way, wont |
Antonyms: |
abstention, refrain |
| Concept: | Form. |
| Category: | 1. General Form |
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-nouns
form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour (outline); structure; plasmature., feature, lineament, turn; phase (aspect); posture, attitude, pose., [Science of form] morphism., [Similarity of form] isomorphism., forming; formation, figuration, efformation; sculpture; plasmation.
-verbs
form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build (construct).
-adjectives
formed, [Receiving form] plastic, fictile; formative., [Give form] plasmic., [Similar in form] isomorphous.
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Antonyms: |
amorphism |
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