DECENT


Meaning of DECENT in English

adjective

1.

Synonyms: decorous 1, becoming, befitting, comme il faut, conforming, correct, nice, proper, right, seemly

Contrasted words: awkward, clumsy, gauche, inept, maladroit; discomfiting, disconcerting, embarrassing; crude, rough, rude, uncouth

2.

Synonyms: chaste , clean, immaculate, modest, pure, spotless, stainless, unblemished, undefiled, unsullied

Related Word: noble; good, right; rigid, strict; ascetic, austere, severe

Contrasted words: lewd; libertine, wanton; abandoned, dissolute, profligate, reprobate

Antonyms: indecent; obscene

3.

Synonyms: respectable 5, presentable, tolerable

4.

better than mediocre but less than excellent

the accommodations were decent

Synonyms: acceptable, adequate, all right, common, good, respectable, right, satisfactory, sufficient, tolerable, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unimpeachable, unobjectionable; compare respectable 5, sufficient 1

Related Word: average, fair, mediocre, middling

Contrasted words: imperfect, inadequate, unacceptable, unsatisfactory; excellent, fine, superior

5.

Synonyms: sufficient 1, adequate, comfortable, competent, enough, satisfactory, sufficing

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