1 (especially spoken) of a good enough standard or quality:
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.
compareINDECENT
decently adverb:
I escaped from the party as soon as was decently possible. * You need to be decently dressed to go for an interview.
IDIOMS
to do the decent thing to do what people or society expect, especially in a difficult situation:
He did the decent thing and resigned.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is decent a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, decent is tagged as adjective.
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