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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
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)
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"Not shooting means always missing" (Dutch proverb)