Meaning

Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything..

Definitions by Sense

1. Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything.
2. Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing.
3. One's customary method of acting; habit.
4. Good, polite behaviour.
5. The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
6. A certain degree or measure.
7. Sort; kind; style.
8. Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

Example Sentences

The treacherous manner of his mournful death.

Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.

His natural manner makes him seem like the boss.

[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.

These people have strange manners.

Harriet was not insensible of manner; she had voluntarily noticed her father’s gentleness with admiration as well as wonder. Mr. Martin looked as if he did not know what manner was.

But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.

It is in a manner done already.

Word Forms

• manners
• mannering
• mannered

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When Should You Use Manner?

Use manner when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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