[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

decorous \dec"orous\ de^k"-oru^s or d-ek=o"ru^s;
   277, a. l. dec=orus, fr. decor comeliness, beauty; akin
   to decere. see decent, and cf. decorum.
   suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion;
   marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as,
   a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a
   judge.
   1913 webster

         a decorous pretext the war.              --motley.
   -- deco"rously, adv. -- deco"rousness, n.
   1913 webster
see also:
decent decorum deco"rously deco"rousness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

decorous
     adj 1: characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in
            manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in
            the extreme" ant: indecorous
     2: according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty";
        "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a
        gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent
        burial"; "seemly behavior" syn: becoming, comely, comme
        il faut, decent, seemly
see also:
indecorous becoming comely comme il faut decent seemly 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

98 moby thesaurus words for "decorous":
   christian, accepted, according to hoyle, acknowledged, admitted,
   appropriate, approved, au fait, becoming, befitting, being done,
   ceremonial, ceremonious, civil, civilized, comely, comme il faut,
   condign, conformable, conforming, conventional, correct, customary,
   de rigueur, decent, delicate, demure, dignified, done, due,
   earnest, elegant, felicitous, fit, fitting, formal, frowning,
   genteel, gentlemanly, good, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged,
   happy, hieratic, kosher, ladylike, liturgic, long-faced, mannerly,
   meet, modest, nice, normal, normative, orthodox, polished, polite,
   pompous, prim, proper, punctilious, received, recognized, refined,
   respectable, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigid,
   ritual, ritualistic, sacerdotal, seasonable, sedate, seemly,
   serious, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid,
   stately, stiff, stone-faced, straight-faced, stuffy, suitable,
   thoughtful, traditional, unsmiling, urbane, weighty, well-behaved,
   well-mannered

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