DECENT


Meaning of DECENT in English

adj. Function: 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 Words: 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 FF1C; the accommodations were decent FF1E;

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

Related Words: 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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