Usually means: Meeting generally accepted standards adequately.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word decent:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. decent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. decent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decent, decent: Wordnik
  7. decent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decent: Wiktionary
  9. decent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Decent, decent: Dictionary.com
  13. decent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. decent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Decent, The decent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Decent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. decent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. decent: Rhymezone
  19. decent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. decent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DECENT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. decent: Free Dictionary
  23. decent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. decent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. decent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. decent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decent: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. DECENT: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. decent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. decent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.
adjective:  (of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness.
adjective:  (informal) Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen.
adjective:  Fair; acceptable; okay.
adjective:  Significant; substantial.
adjective:  Conforming to perceived standards of good taste.
adjective:  (obsolete) Comely; shapely; well-formed.

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