comme il faut

1. 1.

   according with custom or propriety

   “her becoming modesty”

   “comely behavior”

   “it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money”

   “seemly behavior”

   Synonymsbecomingcomelydecorousseemly

   Similarproper

Questions about comme il faut

What does comme il faut mean?

comme il faut means "according with custom or propriety".

What is another word for comme il faut?

Close synonyms include becoming, comely, decorous, seemly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comme il faut a common word?

comme il faut is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.