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decorous
English
Etymology
From Latin dec?rus (“seemly, becoming”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?k???s/
Adjective
decorous (comparative more decorous, superlative most decorous)
- Marked by proper behavior.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, chapter V, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 3rd edition, London: J. Jonson, published 1796, section III, pages 219–220:
- The narrow path of truth and virtue inclines neither to the right nor left—it is a ?traightforward bu?ine?s, and they who are earne?tly pur?uing their road, may bound over many decorous prejudices, without leaving mode?ty behind.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 61,[1]
- There came a day when the round of decorous pleasures and solemn gaieties in which Mr. Jos Sedley’s family indulged was interrupted by an event which happens in most houses.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 43
- But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, Part One, Chapter 1[2]
- The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, chapter V, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 3rd edition, London: J. Jonson, published 1796, section III, pages 219–220:
Antonyms
- indecorous
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Translations
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convenient
English
Etymology
From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniens (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?vi?ni?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?vinj?nt/
- Hyphenation: con?ve?nient
Adjective
convenient (comparative more convenient, superlative most convenient)
- Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
- Synonyms: expedient, simple, easy
- Antonym: inconvenient
- (obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
- Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.
- 1640', Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man
- […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.
Related terms
- convene
- convenience
- conveniently
Translations
Further reading
- convenient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- convenient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin conveniens, convenientem, possibly a borrowing (first appears in 1507).
Adjective
convenient (masculine and feminine plural convenients)
- convenient
- Antonym: inconvenient
Derived terms
- convenientment
Related terms
- conveniència
- convenir
References
Further reading
- “convenient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “convenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “convenient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Verb
convenient
- third-person plural future active indicative of conveni?
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