manner
How one acts
Manner is the way something happens or is done: She spoke in a calm manner.
Someone's manner is their characteristic behavior or bearing: His brusque manner put people off.
In the plural, manners are social conduct and etiquette—good manners show politeness, bad manners show rudeness.
All manner of means all kinds of: all manner of strange creatures.
In a manner of speaking qualifies a statement as roughly but not precisely true.
Route or method
- approachWay of handling something
- techniqueSkilled way of performing
- procedurePrescribed sequence of actions
- modeWay or method
means · fashion · style · process · system · methodology · modus operandi · formula
Current popular trend
Manner of behaving
- demeanorOutward manner, conduct
- comportmentManner of behavior
- deportmentManner and conduct
- bearingPosture or orientation
actions · habits · practices · disposition · attitude · carriage · presence · air
Courteous, respectful conduct
- courtesyRespectful, considerate behavior
- decorumFitting social conduct
- proprietyCorrectness of conduct
- civilityFormal politeness in conduct
protocol · formality · refinement · tact · respectfulness · deference · graciousness · courteousness
Custom passed through generations
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- normAccepted behavioral standard
- habitSettled regular tendency
usage · observance · ritual · protocol · formality · heritage · folkway · established practice
way
Route or method
- approachWay of handling something
- techniqueSkilled way of performing
- procedurePrescribed sequence of actions
mode · means · fashion · style · process · system · methodology · modus operandi · formula · routine
fashion
Current popular trend
guise · vein · tone · wise · sort · kind · type · variety · strain · idiom
conduct
Manner of behaving
- demeanorOutward manner, conduct
- comportmentManner of behavior
- deportmentManner and conduct
bearing · actions · habits · practices · disposition · attitude · carriage · presence · air · mien
politeness
Courteous, respectful conduct
- courtesyRespectful, considerate behavior
- decorumFitting social conduct
- proprietyCorrectness of conduct
civility · protocol · formality · refinement · tact · respectfulness · deference · graciousness · courteousness · gentility
tradition
Custom passed through generations
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- normAccepted behavioral standard
habit · usage · observance · ritual · protocol · formality · heritage · folkway · established practice · cultural norm
- demeanorbehavior, conduct, deportment, bearing, demeanor
- dispositionsdisposition, predisposition, inclination, tendency, propensity
- methodsmethod, approach, way, technique, procedure
- normsnorm, norms, standard, social norms, rule
- Norman loanwordsbaron, court, manor, feast, noble
- semantic rolesagent, patient, theme, instrument, goal
mannerchaos
Complete disorder and confusion
randomness · disorganization · formlessness · disorder · haphazardness
mannerrudeness
Disrespectful social behavior
discourtesy · impoliteness · incivility · boorishness · bad manners
- good mannersSocially acceptable conduct
- table mannersProper conduct during meals
- bad mannersSocially unacceptable behavior
- mind your mannersAdmonition to be courteous
- bedside mannerPhysician's interpersonal approach
- well manneredSocially correct in behavior
manners, ill-mannered, well-mannered, mannered, manner of articulation, manner of death, mannerism, mannerly, bad-mannered