Antonyms for decent
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dee-suhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdi sənt |
- bad
- disagreeable
- discourteous
- disobliging
- improper
- inadequate
- inappropriate
- incompetent
- incorrect
- indecent
- inferior
- insufficient
- intolerable
- misbehaving
- poor
- rude
- unacceptable
- unaccommodating
- unfit
- ungenerous
- unkind
- unreasonable
- unrefined
- unreliable
- unrespectable
- unsatisfactory
- unsophisticated
- unsuitable
- unsuited
- untrustworthy
Definition of decent
Origin :- 1530s, "proper to one's station or rank," also "tasteful," from Middle French décent, or directly from Latin decentem (nominative decens) "becoming, seemly, fitting, proper," present participle of decere "to be fitting or suitable," from PIE *deke-, from root *dek- "to take, accept, to receive, greet, be suitable" (cf. Greek dokein "to appear, seem, think," dekhesthai "to accept;" Sanskrit daśasyati "shows honor, is gracious," dacati "makes offerings, bestows;" Latin docere "to teach," decus "grace, ornament"). Meaning "kind, pleasant" is from 1902. Are you decent? (1949) was originally backstage theater jargon for "are you dressed."
- adj respectable, appropriate
- adj kind, generous
- adj sufficient, tolerable
- Decent, unpretentious folks, somewhat new, but with loads of money.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- If she had, now, she might cure some decent girl of her infatuation.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He seems too decent to marry that way—and yet it's the only way I could marry him.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- That kind of folks never do get killed; it's the decent ones.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- I mean the mounted and disreputable portion, not the decent infantry.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- It was decent of Winkleman to keep himself in the background just at first.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- Yet that must be done, in all decent dignity; and at length it was done.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- But if you tell the truth and say he's the decent fellow he is, he'll land you in the workhouse!
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- "I must get a job of some sort that will bring a decent amount of money," he said to Hinde.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- So we waited, with only a decent pretence of interest in the fitful talk.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
Synonyms for decent
- acceptable
- accommodating
- adequate
- all right
- ample
- approved
- average
- becoming
- befitting
- chaste
- clean
- comely
- comfortable
- comme il faut
- common
- competent
- conforming
- continent
- correct
- courteous
- decorous
- delicate
- enough
- ethical
- fair
- fair to middling
- fit
- fitting
- friendly
- good
- gracious
- helpful
- honest
- honorable
- immaculate
- mannerly
- mediocre
- middling
- moderately good
- modest
- moral
- nice
- noble
- obliging
- on the up and up
- passable
- polite
- presentable
- proper
- prudent
- pure
- reasonable
- reserved
- respectable
- right
- satisfactory
- seemly
- spotless
- stainless
- standard
- straight
- straight arrow
- straight shooting
- sufficing
- suitable
- thoughtful
- trustworthy
- unblemished
- undefiled
- unexceptional
- unimpeachable
- unobjectionable
- untarnished
- upright
- virtuous
- worthy
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