manners
Polite behavioral habits
Manners are the social behaviors that govern polite interaction—saying please and thank you, chewing with your mouth closed, not interrupting.
Someone with good manners follows these conventions; someone with bad manners violates them.
Mind your manners.
The word also refers to customs more broadly: a novel of manners depicts the social codes of a particular time and place.
Expressions upon meeting
- deportmentManner and conduct
- decorumFitting social conduct
- protocolPrescribed conduct rules
- proprietyCorrectness of conduct
formality · napkin · silverware · cutlery · toasting · RSVP · introductions · handshake
Courteous, respectful conduct
- civilityFormal politeness in conduct
- considerationCareful thought or compensation
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
- thoughtfulnessAttentive care for others
tactfulness · cordiality · deference · courteousness · amiability · affability · geniality · graciousness
Traditional practices or import taxes
- conventionsAccepted social practices
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- behaviorManner of conducting oneself
- conductManner of behaving
propriety · expectations · appropriateness · formalities · rules · standards · upbringing · breeding
Graceful, unshakable calm
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- charmAttractive personal quality
- refinementElegance of manner
- dignityInnate personal worth
sophistication · finesse · gentility · polish · aplomb · classiness · suavity · debonair
Long-established customs passed down
- practicesRepeated training sessions
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- valuesPrinciples held worthwhile
taboos · customs · beliefs · worldview · diversity · multiculturalism · hospitality · gift-giving
greetings
Expressions upon meeting
- deportmentManner and conduct
- decorumFitting social conduct
- protocolPrescribed conduct rules
propriety · formality · napkin · silverware · cutlery · toasting · RSVP · introductions · handshake · bowing
politeness
Courteous, respectful conduct
- civilityFormal politeness in conduct
- considerationCareful thought or compensation
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
thoughtfulness · tactfulness · cordiality · deference · courteousness · amiability · affability · geniality · graciousness · respectfulness
customs
Traditional practices or import taxes
- conventionsAccepted social practices
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- behaviorManner of conducting oneself
conduct · propriety · expectations · appropriateness · formalities · rules · standards · upbringing · breeding · refinement
poise
Graceful, unshakable calm
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- charmAttractive personal quality
- refinementElegance of manner
dignity · sophistication · finesse · gentility · polish · aplomb · classiness · suavity · debonair · tastefulness
traditions
Long-established customs passed down
- practicesRepeated training sessions
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
values · taboos · customs · beliefs · worldview · diversity · multiculturalism · hospitality · gift-giving · ancestral
- common knowledgegeneral knowledge, trivia, common sense, proverbs, sayings
- elementary schoolclassroom, student, first grade teacher, reading skills, teacher
- social interactiongreeting, hello, goodbye, hi, bye
- social lifefriend, family, group, relationship, community
- societysociety, social customs, class, citizen, social hierarchy
- cultural differenceslocal cuisine, dialect, slang, religious practices, holiday customs
mannersrudeness
Disrespectful social behavior
bad manners · discourtesy · impoliteness · disrespect · incivility
mannerscrudeness
Lack of sophistication
vulgarity · coarseness · uncouthness · indecorum · impropriety
- 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
manner, mannered, manner of articulation, manner of death, mannerism, mannerly, mannerless, unmannerly, mannerisms