| Main Entry: | respectability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
Synonyms: |
decency, honesty, honorableness, propriety, reputability, virtue |
| 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: | decorum |
| 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: | 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: | gentility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sophistication, cultivation |
Synonyms: |
aristocracy, blue blood, civility, courtesy, courtliness, culture, decorum, elegance, elite, etiquette, flower*, formality, gentle birth, gentlefolk, gentry, good breeding, good family, good manners, high birth, mannerliness, nobility, optimacy, polish, politeness, propriety, quality, rank, refinement, respectability, ruling class, society, upper class, upper crust, urbanity |
Antonyms: |
coarseness, crudeness, roughness, rusticity |
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
Synonyms: |
accordance, advisability, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, ethicality, expedience, fitness, harmony, justice, legitimacy, meetness, morality, order, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rectitude, respectability, rightness, seemliness, suitability |
Antonyms: |
immorality, impropriety, inappropriateness, unsuitableness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good manners |
Synonyms: |
accepted conduct, amenities, breeding, civilities, correctness, courtesy, decency, decorum, delicacy, dignity, etiquette, good behavior, good form, modesty, mores*, niceties, politeness, politesse, protocol, punctilio, rectitude, refinement, respectability, rules of conduct, seemliness, social conventions, social grace, the done thing |
Antonyms: |
bad manners, impropriety, misbehavior, misconduct |
| Main Entry: | reputation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commonly held opinion of person's character |
Synonyms: |
acceptability, account, approval, authority, character, credit, dependability, distinction, eminence, esteem, estimation, fame, favor, honor, influence, mark*, name*, notoriety, opinion, position, prestige, privilege, prominence, rank, regard, reliability, renown, rep, report, repute, respectability, standing, stature, trustworthiness, weight, éclat |
| Notes: | character is what one is; reputation is what one is thought to be by others |
Antonyms: |
disreputableness, ill repute, notoriety |
| Main Entry: | virtue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, integrity |
Synonyms: |
advantage, asset, character, charity, chastity, consideration, credit, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, excellence, faith, faithfulness, fineness, fortitude, generosity, good point, goodness, high-mindedness, hope, ideal, incorruptibility, innocence, justice, kindness, love, merit, morality, plus*, probity, prudence, purity, quality, rectitude, respectability, righteousness, temper, temperance, trustworthiness, uprightness, value, worth, worthiness |
Antonyms: |
dishonor, evil, immorality, vice |
| Main Entry: | righteousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice |
Synonyms: |
fairness, goodness, honor, justness, rectitude, respectability, uprightness, virtue |