COMPORTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comportment mean? 

• COMPORTMENT (noun)
  The noun COMPORTMENT has 1 sense:

1. dignified manner or conduct

  Familiarity information: COMPORTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPORTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dignified manner or conduct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bearing; comportment; mien; presence

Hypernyms ("comportment" is a kind of...):

manner; personal manner (a way of acting or behaving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comportment"):

dignity; gravitas; lordliness (formality in bearing and appearance)

Derivation:

comport (behave in a certain manner)

comport (behave well or properly)

 Context examples 

The effect of all this was to rob White Fang of much of his puppyhood and to make him in his comportment older than his age.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Though the novelty had not yet worn off, the peaceful comportment of the seals had quieted my alarm.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)