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Decent
Definitions
- 1 Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.
- 2 Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness.
- 3 Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen. informal
"Are you decent? May I come in?"
- 4 Fair; acceptable; okay.
"He's a decent saxophonist, but probably not good enough to make a career of it."
- 5 Significant; substantial.
"There are a decent number of references out there, if you can find them."
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- 6 Conforming to perceived standards of good taste.
"I had a cup of tea - the last decent cup of tea for many days; and in a room that most soothingly looked just as you would expect a lady’s drawing-room to look, we had a long quiet chat by the fireside."
- 7 Comely; shapely; well-formed. obsolete
"And ſable ſtole of Cipres Lawn, Over thy decent ſhoulders drawn."
- 1 conforming to conventions of sexual behavior wordnet
- 2 meeting requirements wordnet
- 3 observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress wordnet
- 4 sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public wordnet
- 5 in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion wordnet
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- 6 socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous wordnet
- 1 in the right manner; correctly; suitably wordnet
- 1 Misspelling of descent. alt-of, misspelling
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French décent, or its source, Latin decēns, present participle of decet (“it is fitting or suitable”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to take, accept, to receive, greet, be suitable”) (compare Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokéō, “I appear, seem, think”), δέχομαι (dékhomai, “I accept”); Sanskrit दशस्यति (daśasyáti, “shows honor, is gracious”), दाशति (dāśati, “makes offerings, bestows”)). Meaning ‘kind, pleasant’ is from 1902.
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