Qualities
Synonyms for decent
Synonyms for decent: nice and fitting. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for decent
Interchangeable with decent in this sense
Audited under decent's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one decent carries in that sense.
- niceadjective, in the sense "socially or conventionally correct"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name decent as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- fittingfitting is an adjective in the sense "in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion"
The first group is filed under decent's own sense. The second reaches decent from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
socially or conventionally correct
From a decent family.
The true synonym
nice
Same sentence, swapped: From a nice family.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for decent in the sentence quoted.
- acceptable
- pure
- accepted
Where decent turns up in the game
decent is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where decent is the trap
- comfortableadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is easy, in the sense "in fortunate circumstances financially", with decent sitting one tile away.
- niceadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dainty, in the sense "excessively fastidious and easily disgusted", and decent is one of the three tiles that lose.
- properlyadverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is duly, in the sense "in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances", and decent is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play decent
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so decent reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company decent keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. decent carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.