deportment

Other forms of deportment

plural

deportments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deportment

What does deportment mean?

deportment means "(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people".

How many syllables are in deportment?

deportment has 3 syllables: de-port-ment. The stress falls on "port". In IPA it is /dəˈpɔɹtmənt/.

What is another word for deportment?

Close synonyms include demeanor, demeanour, behavior, behaviour, conduct. 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 deportment a common word?

deportment is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with deportment?

1 word rhymes with deportment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.