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Adjective decent has 6 senses
- decent, nice - socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"
Antonym: unrespectable (indirect, via respectable)
- becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly - 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"
Antonym: improper (indirect, via proper)
- decent - conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana
Antonyms: indecent, coarse, crude, earthy, gross, vulgar, Hollywood, indelicate, obscene
- adequate, decent, enough - enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"
Antonyms: insufficient, deficient (indirect, via sufficient)
- decent - decently clothed; "are you decent?"
Antonym: immodest (indirect, via modest)
- decent - 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"
Antonym: immodest (indirect, via modest)
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