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mannered

mannered adjective: having manners or (often excessive) mannerisms.

Adjective

mannered (comparative more mannered, superlative most mannered)

  1. (in-compounds, often) Having manners or (often excessive) mannerisms.
    • His upbringing had led him to act in an overly mannered way.
    • ill-mannered.

mannered meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

mannered in Malayalam

pretentious, affected, unnatural
ഒരു പ്രത്യേകതരം രീതിയുള്ള, കൃത്രിമത്വം നിറഞ്ഞ, പ്രകൃത്യാ ഉള്ളതല്ലാത്ത, നിർദ്ദിഷ്ടരീതിയിൽ പെരുമാറുന്ന, കപടവേഷമായ, വ്യാജവേഷമായ

mannered in Kannada

ನಡತೆಯ, ವರ್ತನೆಯ, ಆಚಾರದ, ನಡತೆಯುಳ್ಳ, ವಿಲಕ್ಷಣದ, ವಿಲಕ್ಷಣ ವರ್ತನೆಯ

Examples of mannered in a sentence

  • They talked a delicate and elastic Arabic, and were mannered, often foppish, in habit.
  • It's an impressive, almost overwhelming synthesis of commercial influences, including, in their monster hit Radioactive, some rather mannered dubstep wubs.
  • He dressed in a mannered fashion with turned-back cuffs and double slits to his coat, bow-ties and fancy waistcoats.

All 10 example sentences with mannered

Forms of mannered

comparativemore mannered
superlativemost mannered

Origin of mannered

From Middle English manered; equivalent to manner + -ed.

Words formed from mannered

Questions about mannered

What does mannered mean?
Mannered means having manners or (often excessive) mannerisms.
What is mannered in Malayalam?
Mannered in Malayalam is ഒരു പ്രത്യേകതരം രീതിയുള്ള, കൃത്രിമത്വം നിറഞ്ഞ, പ്രകൃത്യാ ഉള്ളതല്ലാത്ത. See Mannered meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is mannered?
Mannered is an adjective.

Words near mannered in the dictionary

  1. manner clause
  2. manner clauses
  3. manner of articulation
  4. manner of death
  5. mannerable
  6. mannered
  7. Mannerim
  8. mannering
  9. Mannering Park
  10. mannerism
  11. mannerisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mannered (page history and authors); mannered (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); mannered (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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