decent
decent is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 35 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
- 2.Comely; shapely; well-formed. [Archaic] A sable stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Milton. By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. Pope.
- 3.Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person. A decent retreat in the mutability of human affairs. Burke. -- De"cent*ly, adv. -- De"cent*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- all
- and
- are
- brother
- chaste
- chastity
- cherry
- continence
- continent
- decency
- decorous
- decorum
- delicacy
- delicate
- heaven
- honest
- honesty
- modest
- modesty
- prude
- pucelage
- pudicity
- pure
- purity
- shame
- simon-pure
- snow
- soul
- the
- vestal
- virgin
- virginity
- virtue
- virtuous
- white
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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