INDECENT


Meaning of INDECENT in English

— indecently , adv.

/in dee"seuhnt/ , adj.

1. offending against generally accepted standards of propriety or good taste; improper; vulgar: indecent jokes; indecent language; indecent behavior.

2. not decent; unbecoming or unseemly: indecent haste.

[ 1555-65; indecent- (s. of indecens ) unseemly. See IN- 3 , DECENT ]

Syn. 1. distasteful, immodest, indecorous, indelicate; coarse, outrageous, rude, gross; obscene, filthy, lewd, licentious. See improper. 2. inappropriate.

Ant. 2. appropriate; becoming.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .