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good form

good form noun: behavior that is both morally and socially correct; proper manner, decorum or etiquette.

Noun

good form (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Behavior that is both morally and socially correct; proper manner, decorum or etiquette.
    • The Queen is a model of good form.
    • When any of his descendants chose to take him to task for the crudeness of his manners he was accustomed to look them coldly over and retort that things had come to a pretty pass when comparatively new people ventured to instruct the oldest of the old settlers as to what was or was not good form.1909, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 3, in The Autobiography of Methuselah
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, form.
    1. Especially, a high level of performance in an activity (often in the expression on good form; see also on form).
      • Jones showed good form in the match today, and Smith was on good form too.

good form meaning in Malayalam

good form in Malayalam

polite behaviour, good manners, manners
അംഗീകൃതസാമൂഹ്യമര്യാദ, അംഗീകൃത സാമൂഹ്യ പെരുമാറ്റരീതി, ആചാരമര്യാദ, മുറപ്രകാരമുള്ളപെരുമാറ്റം, ഇഞ്ചിളിപ്പ്, മര്യാദ

Antonyms of good form

Questions about good form

What does good form mean?
Good form means behavior that is both morally and socially correct; proper manner, decorum or etiquette.
What is good form in Malayalam?
Good form in Malayalam is അംഗീകൃതസാമൂഹ്യമര്യാദ, അംഗീകൃത സാമൂഹ്യ പെരുമാറ്റരീതി, ആചാരമര്യാദ. See Good form meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is good form?
Good form is a noun.

Words near good form in the dictionary

  1. good folk
  2. good for a laugh
  3. good for nothing
  4. good for someone
  5. Good Forest
  6. good form
  7. good fortune
  8. good fortunes
  9. Good Friday
  10. Good Friday grass
  11. Good Friday plant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: good form (page history and authors); good form (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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