decent

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

de·cent BrE [ˈdiːsnt] NAmE [ˈdiːsnt] adjective
1. of a good enough standard or quality: (informal)a decent meal/job/place to live
•I need a decent night's sleep.
2. (of people or behaviour)honest and fair; treating people with respect
•ordinary, decent, hard-working people
•Everyone said he was a decent sort of guy.
3. acceptable to people in a particular situation
•a decent burial
•That dress isn't decent.
•She ought to have waited for a decent interval before getting married again.
4. (informal)wearing enough clothes to allow sb to see you
•I can't go to the door— I'm not decent.
compare ↑indecent
Idiom: ↑do the decent thing
Derived Word: ↑decently

Word Origin:
[decent decently] mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘suitable, appropriate’): from Latin decent- ‘being fitting’, from the verb decere.

Example Bank:
•I think the minister should do the decent thing and resign.
•My uncle has been pretty decent to me.
•The bar looked decent enough.
•We had trouble finding a hotel that was halfway decent.
•He looks as if he could do with a decent meal.
•I need a decent night's sleep.
•Local people made sure the soldiers were given a decent burial.
•She should have waited a decent interval before marrying again.
•The chairman must now do the decent thing and resign.
•These are ordinary, decent, hard-working people.
•This place looks decent enough— let's stay here.
•We aim to provide decent affordable housing for everyone.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  adequate, enough, becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly, nice, properly, decently, in good order, right, the right way
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  indecent, improperly