Mannered

Definition: Mannered

Mannered

Adjective

1. Having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom".

Date "mannered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fashion	Adjective: fashionable; in fashion; Noun: a la mode, comme il faut; admitted in society, admissible in society; Noun: presentable; conventional; (customary); genteel; well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite; (courteous).
Inelegance	Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.
Vulgarity	Dowdy; slovenly; (dirty); ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi; (plebeian); uncourtly; uncivil; (discourteous); ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Mannered

English words defined with "mannered": camp, campy ♦ in a well mannered way ♦ staginess, stagy ♦ theatricality, Thewed. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Well Mannered Look (1964)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Ill Mannered Playas [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Travel	Ecuador	With regard to social courtesies, Ecuadorians are very polite and well mannered. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Mannered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mannered" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	76	38,217

Expressions using "mannered": ill mannered ♦ in a well mannered way ♦ well mannered. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "mannered": good-mannered.
	Containing "mannered": ill-mannered person.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "mannered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me sjellje. (various references)

Arabic		‏متكلف (affected, artificial, assumed, constrained, factitious, faked, false, feigned, forced, overacted, put on, sham, stagy, stilted, stogie, strained, theatrical, unnatural), ‏متصنع (affected, artificial, assumed, overacted, phony, sham, simulated, stagy, strained, theatrical, unnatural), ‏مصطنع (artificial, stagy, theatrical, unreal), ‏ذو عادات معينة. (various references)

Bulgarian		с ... обноски, маниерен (affected, precious), превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy). (various references)

Czech		strojený (affected, labored, laboured, meretricious, minikin, phoney, phony, refined, spurious, studied, stuffy), afektovaný (affected, camp, genteel, mincing, minikin, stilted, studied, stuffy, theatrical, unnatural). (various references)

Farsi		تصنعی (Sophisticated), دارای سبک یارفتاربخصوص . (various references)

French		maniéré, poseur, affecté. (various references)

German		manieriert (affected). (various references)

Greek		έχων τρόπουσ, εξεζητημένοσ (dandified, farfetched, precious, pretentious). (various references)

Hebrew		א�"יב (affable, civil, courteous, gallant, genial, gracious, kind, kindly, mannerly, obliging, polite, suave, well mannered). (various references)

Hungarian		modorú. (various references)

Indonesian		dibuat-buat (airy). (various references)

Italian		manierato (affected). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		癖の有る文� (mannered style), きりきり舞い (a whirl, awkward, awkwardness, clumsy, constrained, corrugated, crude, going round and round, jagged, jerkiness, mashed sweet potato, milled, neat, notched, rushing a person off his feet, serrated, shrill, smart, spruce, stiff, stiff-mannered, stiltedness, strained atmosphere, thin and bony, unrefined). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くせのあるぶ�"しょう (mannered style), ぶさほう (bad manners, discourtesy, ill-mannered, rude). (various references)

Manx		ellynagh (artful, artificial, artistic, cultivated, mannerliness, well-bred). (various references)

Pig Latin		anneredmay

Portuguese		polidez (civility, courtesy, politeness), amaneirado (mincing machine, niminy-piminy, precious), afetado (affected, bijou, conceited, coxcombical, dandified, dollish, far fetched, finical, for, forced, fulsome, miminy-piminy, niminy-piminy, pompous, precious, pretentious, prim, scenic, scenical, smug, stilted, theatrical, wiredrawn). (various references)

Romanian		manierat (attentive, ceremonious, courteous, courteously, courtly, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, mannerly, well bred, well mannered, well-behaved), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references)

Russian		вычурный (baroque, cutesy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		usiljen (constrained, forced, starch, starched, starchy, stiff, strained), neprirodan (constrained, contrived, mincing, stagy, uncanny, unnatural), afektiran (kittenish, prim). (various references)

Spanish		de modales, amanerado (affected, camp, twee). (various references)

Swedish		tillgjord (affected, genteel, mincing, niminy-piminy, precious). (various references)

Turkish		yapmacıklı (affecting, feignedly, precious, stiff necked, stilted), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful). (various references)

Ukranian		манірний (affected, angular, ceremonious, donnish, finical, lackadaisical, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, offish, prim, prudish, smug, starchy), пишномовний (altisonant, baggy, declamatory, exaggerative, gorgeous, grandiloquent, heroic, magniloquent, opulent, ornate, orotund, ossianic, puffy, rhetorical, stilted, turgid). (various references)

Vietnamese		kiểu cách (euphuistic, fashion, frill, fussy, lardy-dardy, precious, preciously). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "mannered": overmannered, unmannered. (additional references)
	Words containing "mannered": unmanneredly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mannered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: manere, maniere, Mannari, mannored, manored, Mcnerney, Minnigrey. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mannered" (pronounced ma"nerd)
3	-n er d	cornered, dishonored, garnered, honored, minored, Reynard.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: remanned.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-m-n-n-r"
	-1 letter: amender, meander, reedman, renamed.
	-2 letters: damner, demean, earned, endear, ennead, manned, manner, meaner, mender, neared, reamed, remade, remand, remend, rename.
	-3 letters: adeem, admen, ameer, amend, armed, denar, derma, dream, eared, edema, emend, ender, enema, madre, maned, menad, merde, named, namer, ramee, ramen, ranee, redan, reman.
	-4 letters: amen, dame, damn, dare, darn, dean, dear, deem, deer, deme, dene, dere, derm, dram, dree, earn, erne, made, mane, mare, mead, mean, meed, mend, mere, name, nard, near, need, neem, nema, nene, nerd, rand, read, ream, rede, reed, rend.
	-5 letters: and, ane, are, arm, dam, dee, den, ear, eme, end, era, ere, ern, mad, mae, man, mar, med, men, nae, nam, nan, nee, rad, ram, ran, red, ree, rem.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-m-n-n-r"
	+2 letters: endearment, meandering, ornamented, overmanned, unmannered.
	+3 letters: derangement, determinant, detrainment, endearments, redemanding, renominated, undermanned.
	+4 letters: derangements, determinants, detrainments, endangerment, extramundane, overmannered, predominance, prenominated, randomnesses, remaindering, undergarment, underlayment, underpayment, ungerminated, unmanneredly, unornamented.
	+5 letters: commandeering, counterdemand, countermanded, determinantal, determination, endangerments, indeterminacy, indeterminate, interpandemic, mediterranean, neuraminidase, overdemanding, overdominance, predominances, preordainment, underclassmen, undergarments, underlayments, underpayments.
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