decourous

Adjective

decorous (comparative more decorous, superlative most decorous)

1. Marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards; becoming, seemly.
   • The narrovv path of truth and virtue inclines neither to the right nor left—it is a ſtraightforvvard buſineſs, and they vvho are earneſtly purſuing their road, may bound over many decorous prejudices, vvithout leaving modeſty behind.1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Animadversions on Some of the Writers who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With...

   Synonyms:

   becomed, menseful, chaste, continent, correct, upstanding, delicate, decent, desertful, deserving

   Antonyms:

   dedecorous, indecorous, undecorous

2. (obsolete) Appropriate, suitable.
   • [B]oth the truth vvhich the Prophecy aims at is faithfully conveyed, and that decorous embelliſhment in the external Cortex of the Prophecy punctually obſerved.1664, H[enry] More, chapter IV, in Synopsis Prophetica; or, The Second Part of the Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity: […], London: […] James Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, book I...

   Synonyms:

   allowable, appropriate, apropos, apposite, apt, comely, commensurate, correct, expedient, felicitous

   Antonyms:

   bad, discommensurate, improper, inappropriate, malapropos, inapt, incommensurate, inept, inopportune, out of line