GOOD FORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good form mean? 

• GOOD FORM (noun)
  The noun GOOD FORM has 1 sense:

1. behavior that conforms to social conventions of the time

  Familiarity information: GOOD FORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD FORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Behavior that conforms to social conventions of the time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

it is not good form to brag about winning

Hypernyms ("good form" is a kind of...):

correctitude; properness; propriety (correct or appropriate behavior)

 Context examples 

“Meaning ‘good form’ and that sort of thing?”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)