COMME IL FAUT Synonyms: 108 Similar and Opposite Words

comme il faut

adjective

Definition of comme il faut

as in appropriate

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Recent Examples of comme il faut Champagne obviously flowed comme il faut; everyone was in good spirits. — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2024 There is nothing scary, amiss, or unrelatable about me, who am comme il faut. — Laura Kolbe, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023 Among the upper crust, such a thing would not have been comme il faut. — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 5 July 2018

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Adjective

Laws, agency regulations and court orders require that the children receive comprehensive healthcare and appropriate education while they're detained.

— Mark Betancourt, NPR, 30 Oct. 2026
Federal prosecutors David Novick and Jonathan Francis don’t explicitly recommend a non custodial sentence, but imply repeatedly that one is appropriate.

— Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of appropriate

Adjective

Rosatom wants to bring nuclear power to that market, saying 38 of Africa’s 54 countries have coastlines suitable for its floating reactors.

— Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Some see Rodriguez, whose signature is clean, artful dressing, as a suitable successor for Veronica Leoni as Calvin Klein Collection’s creative director.

— Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of suitable

Adjective

Issagholyan built out a 24-session plan to course-correct, involving twice weekly visits in which I would be chiropractically adjusted, my jaw cold-lasered to promote cellular regeneration and my back muscles stimulated by electrodes.

— Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
Google is correct that Personal Intelligence is opt-in, but the company uses various prompts and pop-ups to entice users to turn it on without fully explaining the consequences.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of correct

Adjective

The chaos was a fitting end to one of the ugliest elections in recent years, said Paulo César de Oliveira in Correio da Manhã (Rio de Janeiro).

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 31 Oct. 2026
Lafayette 148 said the exhibition offered a fitting backdrop for a collection that draws on the decade’s cultural influence while expressing the brand’s own perspective.

— Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of fitting

Adjective

Any function whose work can be pointed at a proper model of its underlying business, instead of at a general-purpose language model, is starting to compound the same way Anthropic’s engineering did a year ago.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Pentecostal parents Ruth and Marius were accused of domestic violence, with worldwide protests criticizing what dissenters called harsh and hasty steps taken by Norwegian social workers without proper evidence.

— Tomris Laffly, Time, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of proper

Adjective

If an agent recommends three accounts for a sales rep to review, a lower confidence threshold is acceptable because human oversight remains intact.

— Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Instead, this memo claims, sending people to live in institutions—away from their families, friends, and beds—is an acceptable option.

— Rebekah Taussig, Time, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of acceptable

Adjective

When In Rome is followed by Practice Makes Perfect and then Beg, Borrow, or Steal, each of which follows two different couples who also have their meet cutes in Rome, Kentucky.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 23 July 2026
The ‘meet cute’ is becoming a trope in how people on social media talk about romance.

— Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of meet

Adjective

The activists who once demanded radical change begin worrying about their children’s safety, their schools, and whether the neighborhood is a decent place to grow up.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 28 Oct. 2026
Each tier receives different benefits, but even the lowester level (Green) still gets a decent amount of perks.

— Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of decent

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