decent

decent /'di:snt/
  • tính từ
    • hợp với khuôn phép
    • đứng đắn, đoan trang, tề chỉnh
    • lịch sự, tao nhã
    • kha khá, tươm tất
      • a decent dinner: bữa ăn tươm tất
      • a decent income: số tiền thu nhập kha khá
    • (thông tục) tử tế, tốt
      • that's very decent of you to come: anh đến chơi thật tử tế quá
      • a decent fellow: người tử tế đứng đắn
    • (ngôn ngữ nhà trường), (từ lóng) hiền, không nghiêm khắc

Xem thêm: nice, becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly, adequate, enough, properly, decently, in good order, right, the right way



decent

Từ điển Collocation

decent adj.

1 good/acceptable

VERBS be, look The pub looked decent enough.

ADV. really, very | perfectly | half/halfway, pretty, quite We had trouble finding a hotel that was halfway decent. | enough

PREP. to My uncle has been pretty decent to me.

2 honest/respectable

VERBS be

ADV. very | perfectly, thoroughly

PHRASES do the decent thing I think the minister should do the decent thing and resign.


Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; nice

    from a decent family

    a nice girl

  • according with custom or propriety; becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly

    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

  • conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana
  • enough to meet a purpose; adequate, enough

    an adequate income

    the food was adequate

    a decent wage

    enough food

    food enough

  • decently clothed

    are you decent?

  • 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


English Slang Dictionary

excellent; really nice:"That car is really decent!"

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: adequate correct fit proper respectable right suitable

ant.: coarse indecent vulgar