Decent vs. Descent

Decentadjective

(obsolete) Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.

Decentadjective

(of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness.

Decentadjective

(informal) Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen.

Decentadjective

Fair; good enough; okay.

Decentadjective

Significant; substantial.

Decentadjective

(obsolete) Comely; shapely; well-formed.

Decentadjective

Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.

Decentadjective

Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.

Decentadjective

Comely; shapely; well-formed.

Decentadjective

Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.

Decentadjective

socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous;

Decentadjective

according with custom or propriety;

Decentadjective

conforming to conventions of sexual behavior;

Decentadjective

enough to meet a purpose;

Decentadjective

decently clothed;

Decentadjective

observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress;

Decentadverb

in the right manner;

Decentadjective

conforming with generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behaviour

Decentadjective

appropriate; fitting

Decentadjective

not likely to shock or embarrass others

Decentadjective

sufficiently clothed to see visitors

Decentadjective

of an acceptable standard; satisfactory

Decentadjective

good

Decentadjective

kind, obliging, or generous

Descentnoun

An instance of descending; act of coming down.

Descentnoun

A way down.

Descentnoun

A sloping passage or incline.

Descentnoun

Lineage or hereditary derivation.

Descentnoun

A drop to a lower status or condition; decline. en

Descentnoun

A falling upon or invasion.

Descentnoun

(topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

Descentnoun

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

Descentnoun

Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; - often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

Descentnoun

Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.

Descentnoun

Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.

Descentnoun

Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.

Descentnoun

Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

Descentnoun

That which is descended; descendants; issue.

Descentnoun

A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

Descentnoun

Lowest place; extreme downward place.

Descentnoun

a movement downward

Descentnoun

properties attributable to your ancestry;

Descentnoun

the act of changing your location in a downward direction

Descentnoun

the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

Descentnoun

a downward slope or bend

Descentnoun

the descendants of one individual;

Descentnoun

an act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling

Descentnoun

a downward slope

Descentnoun

a moral, social, or psychological decline

Descentnoun

the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality

Descentnoun

the transmission of qualities, property, or privileges by inheritance.

Descentnoun

a sudden violent attack

Descentnoun

an unexpected visit