Definitions for comportment

comportment com·port·ment

Spelling: [kuh m-pawrt-muh nt, -pohrt-]
IPA: /kəmˈpɔrt mənt, -ˈpoʊrt-/

Comportment is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 486 anagrams from letters in comportment (cemmnooprtt).

Definitions for comportment

noun

  1. personal bearing or conduct; demeanor; behavior.

Origin of comportment

From the Middle French word comportement, dating back to 1590-1600. See comport1, -ment

Examples for comportment

Rather was there something eager and rapt about the comportment of the people.

Let my conscience be ever upright and pure, my exterior modest, my conversation edifying, my comportment regular.

What did surprise me, when anon the sea rolled close up to the cottage, was the comportment of the young artist himself.

His subjects regarded him with fear and trembling, and his comportment toward his weaker neighbors was a growing menace.

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.

The comportment of beef in an atmosphere of carbonic acid, to which carbonic oxide has been added, is curious.

His comportment was cheerful in a sober fashion, notwithstanding the transparent perturbation of his spirit.

He did everything right—too right; and in dress and comportment was inevitably correct.

And those now have very little to do with any notion of excellence, either of character or of comportment.

Word Value for comportment
Scrable

19

Words with friends

24

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