decent

Good enough to meet your needs or expectations.

• We had a decent meal.
• You can get a decent phone for that price.
• Did you find somewhere decent to stay?

Similar words: acceptable, reasonable, satisfactory

Opposites: poor, inadequate

Common phrases: decent meal, decent salary, decent quality

Kind, honest, and fair in the way you treat people.

• He is a decent person.
• She was decent enough to return the money.
• Decent people do not laugh at someone else's pain.

How to use it: decent of someone to do something (It was decent of her to help us move.)

Similar words: good, honest, upright

Opposites: dishonest

Common phrases: decent person, decent man, decent society, decent behaviour

Fairly large in amount, number, or size.

• We saved a decent amount.
• A decent number of people came to the meeting.
• She earned a decent sum from the sale.

Similar words: substantial, considerable, sizeable

Opposites: small

Common phrases: decent amount, decent number, decent portion

Wearing enough clothes for other people to see you.

• Are you decent?
• Wait until I'm decent before opening the door.
• She put on a robe to make herself decent.

Similar words: dressed, covered up

Opposites: naked

Common phrases: be decent, get decent