| 单词 | decorous |
| 释义 | decorous (once / 1915 pages) adj Something that is decorous is dignified, proper, and in good taste, like your decorous great-aunt who always wears a dress — even when she's only headed to the grocery store. The adjective decorous shares its origins with decoration. Both words come from the Latin word decor, meaning "beauty, elegance, charm, grace, ornament." So, something decorous is attractive. Decorous can also mean "dignified or proper," like your decorous habit of saying, "How do you do?" when you meet someone for the first time. WORD FAMILYdecorous: decorously, decorousness, indecorous+/decorum: decorous, decorums, indecorum/indecorous: indecorously, indecorousness/indecorum: indecorums USAGE EXAMPLES“Silence” is as visually striking as you might expect, but also overly tidy, clean and decorous, despite its tortured flesh, its mud and its blood. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) Bychkov is a welcome throwback to a more decorous podium style, gaining great effects, and great fortissimi, with a relative economy of movement. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) The Queen was similarly decorous toward authority, but it was aided by the limitations of moviemaking. Time(Nov 04, 2016) 1adj characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme Syn|Ant in good taste satisfying generally accepted social or esthetic standards sedate, staidcharacterized by dignity and propriety propermarked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness indecorous, indelicate lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct indecentoffensive to good taste especially in sexual matters impropernot suitable or right or appropriate 2adj according with custom or propriety Syn becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, seemly proper marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness |
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