decent

correct, convenable

Assez bon pour répondre à tes besoins ou à tes attentes.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : acceptable, reasonable, satisfactory

Contraires : poor, inadequate

Expressions courantes : decent meal, decent salary, decent quality

honnête, bienveillant

Qui traite les autres avec gentillesse, honnêteté et justice.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : decent of someone to do something (It was decent of her to help us move.)

Synonymes : good, honest, upright

Contraires : dishonest

Expressions courantes : decent person, decent man, decent society, decent behaviour

conséquent, appréciable

Assez important en quantité, en nombre ou en taille.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : substantial, considerable, sizeable

Contraires : small

Expressions courantes : decent amount, decent number, decent portion

habillé, présentable

Suffisamment habillé pour pouvoir se montrer devant les autres.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : dressed, covered up

Contraires : naked

Expressions courantes : be decent, get decent