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say it: DEE-suhnt
decent is an adjective and adverb meaning "socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous". It carries 7 recorded senses.
socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
“from a decent family”
“a nice girl”
in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion
“a decent burial”
“We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this”
conforming to conventions of sexual behavior
“speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd”
observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress
“though one of her shoulder straps had slipped down, she was perfectly decent by current standards”
meeting requirements
“the step makes a satisfactory seat”
“I would kill for a decent cup of coffee”
“a decent wage”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for decent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.