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indecorous

indecorous adjective: improper, immodest, or indecent.

Adjective

indecorous (comparative more indecorous, superlative most indecorous)

  1. Improper, immodest, or indecent.
    • Fact is that papers being locked away for 50-plus years is indecorous.2021, Gabe Roth, quoted in: Tony Mauro, The Marble Palace Blog: Seven Years of Trying to Fix the Supreme Court, in: The National Law Journal, December 15 2021

indecorous meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

indecorous in Hindi

improper
अशोभनीय aśobhnīya, अनुचित anucit, अमर्यादित amaryādit

indecorous in Tamil

ஒழுக்கக் கேடான, பண்பற்ற

indecorous in Urdu

بدتہذیب, بےہودہ, کڈھب, نازیبا

indecorous in Bengali

অশোভন, অসংগত, অশালীন
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indecorous in Malayalam
നിർമ്മര്യാദമായ, മാന്യമല്ലാത്ത, മര്യാദയില്ലാത്ത, അയോഗ്യമായ
indecorous in Kannada
ಶಿಷ್ಟವಲ್ಲದ, ಅನುಚಿತ, ಅಸಭ್ಯ, ಕೆಟ್ಟ ಅಭಿರುಚಿಯ

Antonyms of indecorous

Forms of indecorous

comparativemore indecorous
superlativemost indecorous

Origin of indecorous

By surface analysis, in- + decorous; or, Latin indecōrus.

Words formed from indecorous

Questions about indecorous

What does indecorous mean?
Indecorous means improper, immodest, or indecent.
What is indecorous in Hindi?
Indecorous in Hindi is अशोभनीय (aśobhnīya), अनुचित (anucit), अमर्यादित (amaryādit). See Indecorous meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is indecorous?
Indecorous is an adjective.

Words near indecorous in the dictionary

  1. indecomponible
  2. indecomposability
  3. indecomposable
  4. indecomposableness
  5. indecomposables
  6. indecorous
  7. indecorously
  8. indecorousness
  9. indecorum
  10. indecorums
  11. indeducible

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: indecorous (page history and authors); indecorous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indecorous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Indecorous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indecorous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); indecorous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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