Definitions for conform

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conform con·form

Spelling: [kuh n-fawrm]

IPA: /kənˈfɔrm/

Conform is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in conform (cfmnoor).

Definitions for conform

verb (used without object)

1. to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to):
2. to act in accord with the prevailing standards, attitudes, practices, etc., of society or a group:
3. to be or become similar in form, nature, or character.
4. to be in harmony or accord.
5. to comply with the usages of an established church, especially the Church of England.

verb (used with object)

1. to make similar in form, nature, or character.
2. to bring into agreement, correspondence, or harmony.

adjective

1. Archaic. conformable.

Origin of conform

1275-1325; Middle English confo(u)rmen Anglo-French, Middle French conformer Latin confōrmāre to shape. See con-, form<

Examples for conform

If you conform to custom, you would not say so much of a husband.

I will show them the Holy law to which they must conform, even that which they have broken.

The book also refuses to conform to conventional novelistic style.

But an absence of niceties nor an unwillingness to conform is not a legitimate cause for impeachment.

On his present trajectory, Putin shows no signs that he will conform to international legal and moral norms.

Certainly some people simply cannot stand to live alongside someone who does not conform to their views.

Why can they not conform to the Church, and be plagued to them?

If you do not conform to society, what has society done for me?

But the fun of reading Lennon is in his outright refusal to conform to expectations.

We are not obliged to conform to any particular set of rules.