decent

  • (r) in the right manner
    • please do your job properly!
    • can't you carry me decent?
    in good order, properly, the right way, decently, right,
  • (s) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
    • from a decent family
    • a nice girl
    nice,
  • (s) according with custom or propriety
    • her becoming modesty
    • comely behavior
    • it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money
    • a decent burial
    • seemly behavior
    becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly, decorous,
  • (a) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior
    • "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana
  • (s) sufficient for the purpose
    • an adequate income
    • the food was adequate
    • a decent wage
    • enough food
    • food enough
    enough, adequate,
  • (s) decently clothed
    • are you decent?
  • (s) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress
    • a modest neckline in her dress
    • though one of her shoulder straps had slipped down, she was perfectly decent by current standards

Synonyms

in good order properly the right way decently right nice becoming comely comme il faut seemly decorous enough adequate

Antonyms

improperly indecent

See also

unobjectionable clean decorous proper

Words of close approximity

deceit
decentalisation decently decentralisation decentralise decentralised decentralising decentralization decentralize decentralized decentralizing