'decent' definitions:

Definition of 'decent'

From: WordNet
adverb
In the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?" [syn: properly, decently, decent, in good order, right, the right way] [ant: improperly]
adjective
Socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl" [syn: decent, nice]
adjective
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" [syn: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly]
adjective
Conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana [ant: indecent]
adjective
Sufficient for the purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough" [syn: adequate, decent, enough]
adjective
Decently clothed; "are you decent?"
adjective
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"

Definition of 'decent'

From: GCIDE
  • clothed \clothed\ adj.
  • 1. wearing clothing. [Narrower terms: {adorned(predicate), bedecked(predicate), decked(predicate), decked out(predicate)}; {appareled, attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed}; {arrayed, panoplied}; breeched, pantalooned, trousered; bundled-up; caparisoned; cassocked: costumed: decent] [Narrower terms: dight] [Narrower terms: {dressed-up, dressed to the nines(predicate), dressed to kill(predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up}] [Narrower terms: gowned] [Narrower terms: habited] [Narrower terms: heavy-coated] [Narrower terms: overdressed] [Narrower terms: petticoated] [Narrower terms: red-coated, lobster-backed] [Narrower terms: surpliced] [Narrower terms: {togged dressed esp in smart clothes)}] [Narrower terms: turned out] [Narrower terms: underdressed] [Narrower terms: uniformed] [Narrower terms: vestmented] Also See: adorned, decorated. Antonym: unclothed. [WordNet 1.5]
  • 2. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak. fog-cloaked meadows
  • Syn: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped. [WordNet 1.5]

Definition of 'decent'

From: GCIDE
  • decent \de"cent\ (d[=e]"sent), a. [L. decens, decentis, p. pr. of decere to be fitting or becoming; akin to decus glory, honor, ornament, Gr. dokei^n to seem good, to seem, think; cf. Skr. d[=a][,c] to grant, to give; and perh. akin to E. attire, tire: cf. F. d['e]cent. Cf. Decorate, Decorum, Deign.]
  • 1. Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Before his decent steps. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Comely; shapely; well-formed. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
  • A sable stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person. [1913 Webster]
  • A decent retreat in the mutability of human affairs. --Burke. -- {De"cent*ly}, adv. -- {De"cent*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'decent'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'decent'