decorum

The word “decorum” has 3 syllables: de-co-rum

It's pronounced as /dɪˈkɔːr.əm/


What is synonym and antonym for decorum?

In the thesaurus, “decorum” has 62 synonyms and 31 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for decorum along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for decorum

  • appropriateness
  • attention
  • attentiveness
  • breeding
  • care
  • carefulness
  • character
  • civility
  • conduct
  • convenance
  • convention
  • correctitude
  • correctness
  • courteousness
  • courtesy
  • courtliness
  • decency
  • decorousness
  • demeanor
  • deportment
  • dignity
  • discretion
  • etiquette
  • fitness
  • form
  • formality
  • gentilesse
  • gentility
  • good grace
  • goodness
  • grace
  • graciousness
  • gravity
  • habits
  • high-mindedness
  • honesty
  • honor
  • integrity
  • mannerliness
  • morality
  • order
  • orderliness
  • politeness
  • politesse
  • probity
  • properness
  • propriety
  • protocol
  • prudence
  • punctilio
  • rectitude
  • refinement
  • respectability
  • righteousness
  • rightness
  • seemliness
  • straightness
  • tact
  • uprightness
  • usage
  • virtue
  • virtuousness

Antonyms for decorum

  • bad behavior
  • bad manners
  • badness
  • coarseness
  • crookedness
  • crudeness
  • debauchery
  • degeneracy
  • degradation
  • depravity
  • discourtesy
  • dishonesty
  • disorganization
  • evil
  • gracelessness
  • immorality
  • impoliteness
  • impropriety
  • imprudence
  • incivility
  • indecency
  • indecorum
  • indiscretion
  • perversion
  • rudeness
  • underhandedness
  • unscrupulousness
  • unsuitableness
  • vulgarity
  • wickedness
  • wrong

Meanings of decorum

  • noun
    1. Appropriate social behavior.
    2. A convention of social behavior.

Example Sentences

  • The speaker maintained perfect decorum throughout the meeting.
  • It's important to observe decorum during formal ceremonies.
  • The teacher reminded the students to behave with decorum in class.
  • He was praised for his decorum during the difficult negotiations.
  • The event was conducted with great decorum and respect.

On this page you'll find 93 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to decorum, such as: appropriateness, attention, attentiveness, bad behavior, bad manners, badness, breeding.

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Related Words

habits

  • accouters
  • accoutres
  • act
  • action
  • addictions
  • address
  • affectations
  • air
  • airs
  • alcoholisms
  • anatomies
  • apparels
  • arrays
  • attires
  • attitude
  • attributes
  • bag
  • bags
  • bearing
  • bedecks
  • bedights
  • behavior
  • beliefs
  • bents
  • breeding
  • builds
  • caparisons
  • carriage
  • characteristics
  • civility
  • cloaks
  • clothes
  • code
  • comportment
  • conduct
  • constitutions
  • convenance
  • convention
  • conventions
  • correctitude
  • correctness
  • costumes
  • course
  • courtliness
  • culture
  • customs
  • dealings
  • decency
  • decorum
  • deed
  • delivery
  • demeanor
  • dependances
  • dependences
  • deportment
  • deportments
  • dignity
  • dispositions
  • does up
  • dogmas
  • drapes
  • dresses
  • dresses down
  • dresses up
  • drills
  • eccentricities
  • enrobes
  • enswathes
  • equips
  • ethic
  • ethics
  • etiquette
  • expression
  • fashions
  • figures
  • form
  • formality
  • forms
  • frames
  • frocks
  • front
  • furnishes
  • garbs
  • garments
  • gentility
  • gets up
  • good grace
  • gowns
  • gravity
  • grooves
  • guise
  • habilitates
  • habituations
  • habitudes
  • haps
  • heroinisms
  • huddles
  • ideals
  • ideology
  • inclinations
  • integrity
  • invests
  • jackets
  • jog trots
  • joneses
  • kinks
  • management
  • manners
  • mantles
  • marks
  • mentality
  • mien
  • mind
  • mindset
  • mode
  • modes
  • monkeys
  • morality
  • morals
  • mores
  • morphinisms
  • nature
  • observance
  • oddities
  • order
  • orderliness
  • outfits
  • patterns
  • peculiarities
  • performance
  • physiques
  • policies
  • politeness
  • politesse
  • poses
  • practice
  • practices
  • practises
  • presence
  • principles
  • proclivities
  • properness
  • propriety
  • protocol
  • psyche
  • psychology
  • punctilio
  • quirks
  • regimens
  • regimes
  • respectability
  • ritual
  • rituals
  • robes
  • role
  • rotes
  • routine
  • routines
  • ruts
  • savoir-faire
  • scruples
  • seemliness
  • sets
  • shapes
  • singularities
  • social graces
  • speech
  • spirit
  • structures
  • style
  • style of living
  • styles
  • suits
  • swaddles
  • swathes
  • tact
  • tailors
  • talk
  • taste
  • tendencies
  • tenors
  • tenue
  • tics
  • toilets
  • tolerances
  • tone
  • traits
  • tricks
  • turns
  • underdresses
  • uniforms
  • usage
  • usages
  • uses
  • values
  • vests
  • vestures
  • way
  • way of acting
  • way of life
  • ways
  • wonts
  • wraps

objectiveness

fairness

  • aesthetics
  • allure
  • apathy
  • appeal
  • attraction
  • attractiveness
  • beauteousness
  • beautifulness
  • beauty
  • broad-mindedness
  • candor
  • charitableness
  • charity
  • charm
  • civility
  • comeliness
  • consideration
  • courtesy
  • cuteness
  • daintiness
  • decency
  • decorum
  • delicacy
  • delightfulness
  • desirability
  • desirableness
  • detachment
  • disinterest
  • disinterestedness
  • due
  • duty
  • elegance
  • equitableness
  • equity
  • esthetics
  • evenhandedness
  • exactitude
  • exquisiteness
  • fair shake
  • fair-mindedness
  • fascination
  • fence-sitting
  • flamboyance
  • flashiness
  • flawlessness
  • foxiness
  • give and take
  • glamor
  • glamour
  • gloriousness
  • glossiness
  • good faith
  • goodness
  • gorgeousness
  • handsomeness
  • honesty
  • honor
  • humanity
  • impartiality
  • indifference
  • integrity
  • justice
  • justness
  • legitimacy
  • looks
  • loveliness
  • lusciousness
  • moderation
  • neutralism
  • neutrality
  • nonpartisanship
  • nubility
  • objectiveness
  • objectivity
  • open-mindedness
  • perfection
  • prettiness
  • propriety
  • pulchritude
  • radiance
  • radiancy
  • rationality
  • reasonableness
  • resplendence
  • resplendency
  • right
  • righteousness
  • rightfulness
  • rightness
  • seductiveness
  • seemliness
  • sex appeal
  • sexiness
  • shapeliness
  • showiness
  • sightliness
  • slickness
  • splashiness
  • splendidness
  • splendiferousness
  • square deal
  • straddling
  • sublimeness
  • sublimity
  • suitability
  • superbness
  • tolerance
  • truth
  • unconcern
  • uprightness
  • veracity

observance

  • abidance
  • accession
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquittal
  • acquittance
  • adherence
  • advertence
  • advertency
  • advisement
  • amenities
  • apprehension
  • attendance
  • attention
  • awareness
  • care
  • carrying-out
  • celebration
  • ceremonial
  • ceremony
  • civility
  • cognizance
  • compliance
  • concern
  • conformance
  • conformity
  • consciousness
  • consideration
  • convention
  • custom
  • decorum
  • deference
  • discernment
  • discharge
  • ear
  • etiquette
  • eye
  • fashion
  • fidelity
  • form
  • formality
  • fulfillment
  • graces
  • grasp
  • habit
  • heed
  • heeding
  • honor
  • honoring
  • hyperawareness
  • hyperconsciousness
  • keeping
  • knowledge
  • liturgy
  • manners
  • mark
  • mind
  • mindfulness
  • mores
  • note
  • notice
  • obedience
  • observation
  • perception
  • performance
  • practice
  • practise
  • proprieties
  • protocol
  • recognition
  • regard
  • remark
  • respect
  • rite
  • ritual
  • rule
  • satisfaction
  • service
  • solemnity
  • standard
  • submission
  • surrender
  • thought
  • tradition
  • understanding
  • upholding
  • watch
  • way

immaculacy

  • abstemiousness
  • abstinence
  • chasteness
  • chastity
  • cherry
  • clarity
  • cleanliness
  • cleanness
  • continence
  • decency
  • decorum
  • demureness
  • devotion
  • goodness
  • honor
  • immaculateness
  • innocence
  • integrity
  • maidenhood
  • modesty
  • monogamy
  • morality
  • probity
  • propriety
  • pureness
  • purity
  • rectitude
  • restraint
  • righteousness
  • seemliness
  • singleness
  • sinlessness
  • spotlessness
  • stainlessness
  • taintlessness
  • temperance
  • unsulliedness
  • untaintedness
  • uprightness
  • virginity
  • virtue
  • virtuousness
  • whiteness

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