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Pos: Adjective
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Adjective decent has 6 senses

1.  decent(s = adj.all) nice - socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"
Derived form noun decency1

2.  decent(s = adj.all) becoming, comely, comme il faut, 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"
Derived form noun decency2

3.  decent(a = adj.all) - conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"
Antonym:
indecent
Derived form noun decency1

4.  decent(s = adj.all) adequate, enough - sufficient for the purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"

5.  decent(s = adj.all) - decently clothed; "are you decent?"

6.  decent(s = adj.all) - 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"
Derived form noun decency1


Adverbial decent has 1 senses

   decent(r = adv.all) decently, in good order, properly, right, the right way - in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

decent, adj.
1 a conforming with current standards of behaviour or propriety. b avoiding obscenity.
2 respectable.
3 acceptable, passable; good enough.
4 Brit. kind, obliging, generous (was decent enough to apologize).

Derivative:
decently adv.

Etymology:
F d{eacute}cent or L decere be fitting


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Imperfection

N  imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay, imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short-handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse, almost, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough, surgit amari aliquid.


Purity

N  purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure.