decent

まずまずの、まともな

必要や期待を満たすくらいには良い。

やさしい英語で： 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?

類義語： acceptable, reasonable, satisfactory

反対語： poor, inadequate

よく使う表現： decent meal, decent salary, decent quality

誠実な、良心的な

人に親切で、正直かつ公平に接する。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： decent of someone to do something (It was decent of her to help us move.)

類義語： good, honest, upright

反対語： dishonest

よく使う表現： decent person, decent man, decent society, decent behaviour

かなりの、相当な

量、数、または大きさがかなりある。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： substantial, considerable, sizeable

反対語： small

よく使う表現： decent amount, decent number, decent portion

服を着た

人に見られてもよい程度に服を着ている。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： dressed, covered up

反対語： naked

よく使う表現： be decent, get decent