/ ˈdiːsnt; NAmE / adjective
1.
of a good enough standard or quality :
( informal )
a decent meal / job / place to live
I need a decent night's sleep.
2.
( of people or behaviour ) honest and fair; treating people with respect :
ordinary, decent, hard-working people
Everyone said he was a decent sort of guy.
3.
acceptable to people in a particular situation :
a decent burial
That dress isn't decent.
She ought to have waited for a decent interval before getting married again.
4.
( informal ) wearing enough clothes to allow sb to see you :
I can't go to the door—I'm not decent.
—compare indecent
► de·cent·ly adverb
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IDIOMS
- to do the decent thing
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WORD ORIGIN
mid 16th cent. (in the sense suitable, appropriate ): from Latin decent- being fitting, from the verb decere .