adj
Meaning 1
Improper, immodest, or indecent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
indecorous
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adjective
Meaning 2
lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- indecorous behavior
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: indelicate
Antonyms: decorous
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- was buried with indecent haste
- indecorous behavior
- language unbecoming to a lady
- unseemly to use profanity
- moved to curb their untoward ribaldry
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: indecent, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
By surface analysis, in- + decorous; or, Latin indecōrus.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: неблагоприличен (neblagopriličen) — improper
- Bulgarian: неподобаващ (nepodobavašt) — improper
- Catalan: indecorós — improper
- Finnish: sopimaton — improper
- French: indécent — improper
- Georgian: უდიერი (udieri) — improper
- Hindi: अशोभनीय (aśobhnīya) — improper
- Hindi: अनुचित (anucit) — improper
- Hindi: अमर्यादित (amaryādit) — improper
- Italian: indecoroso — improper
- Portuguese: indecoroso — improper
- Spanish: indecoroso — improper
- Swedish: opassande — improper
- Swedish: otillbörlig — improper
- Swedish: otillständig — improper