adjective

1. proper and fitting a decent burial
2. not immodest; not obscene; chaste decent language
3. conforming to approved social standards; respectable decent apparel
4. reasonably good; adequate decent wages
5. fair and kind decent treatment
6. Informal adequately clothed for propriety

Etymology: MFr décent < L decens (gen decentis), prp. of decere, to befit < IE base *de-, to receive, greet, be suitable, teach > Sans dkšati, (he) is helpful, L docere, to teach, Gr dokein, to think, seem