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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectable, appropriate |
| Synonyms: | approved, becoming, befitting, chaste, clean, comely, comme il faut, conforming, continent, correct, decorous, delicate, ethical, fit, fitting, good, honest, honorable, immaculate, mannerly, modest, moral, nice, noble, on the up and up, polite, presentable, proper, prudent, pure, reserved, right, seemly, spotless, stainless, standard, straight, straight arrow, straight shooting, suitable, trustworthy, unblemished, undefiled, untarnished, upright, virtuous, worthy |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, indecent, poor, unrespectable, unsuitable, unsuited |
| Main Entry: | decent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sufficient, tolerable |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, adequate, all right, ample, average, comfortable, common, competent, enough, fair, fair to middling, good, mediocre, middling, moderately good, passable, presentable, reasonable, respectable, right, satisfactory, sufficing, unexceptional, unimpeachable, unobjectionable |
| Antonyms: | indecent, insufficient, intolerable, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | acceptable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | satisfactory, agreeable |
| Synonyms: | A-OK, adequate, admissible, all right, average, big*, common, cooking with gas, cool*, copacetic, decent, delightful, fair, hep, hip*, hunky-dory, in the swim, kosher*, large, okay, on the ball, on the beam, passable, peachy keen, pleasant, pleasing, respectable, right on, standard, sufficient, swell*, tolerable, trendy, unexceptional, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff, welcome |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, disturbing, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unwelcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adequate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enough, able |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, all right, capable, comfortable, commensurate, competent, decent, equal, fair, passable, requisite, satisfactory, sufficient, sufficing, suitable, tolerable, unexceptional, unobjectionable |
| Notes: | adequate tends toward the qualitative and sufficient toward the quantitative, so adequate is 'suitable to something' and sufficient is 'enough for something' |
| Antonyms: | inadequate, inferior, insufficient, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsuitable, useless |
| Main Entry: | all right |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | satisfactory |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, adequate, appropriate, average, decent, fair, fit, fitting, good, hunky-dory, okay, okey-dokey, passable, proper, satisfying, standard, sufficient, swell*, tolerable, unexceptional, unobjectionable |
| Antonyms: | unsatisfactory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | becoming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suitable; appropriate |
| Synonyms: | befitting, comme il faut, compatible, conforming, congruous, correct, decent, decorous, fit, fitting, in keeping, nice, proper, right, seemly, worthy |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, unbecoming, unfitting, unseemly, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | befitting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate |
| Synonyms: | according to Hoyle, apt, becoming, behooving, beseeming, comme il faut, conforming, correct, decent, decorous, felicitous, fit, fitting, happy, just, kosher*, nice, on the button, on the nose, proper, right, right on, seemly, suitable, what the doctor ordered |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, incorrect, unbecoming, unfitting, unsuitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chaste |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pure, incorrupt |
| Synonyms: | austere, celibate, clean, continent, controlled, decent, decorous, elegant, immaculate, impotent, inexperienced, innocent, intemerate, modest, monogamous, moral, neat, platonic, proper, prudish, quiet, refined, restrained, simple, spotless, stainless, subdued, unaffected, unblemished, uncontaminated, undefiled, unstained, unsullied, unwed, vestal, virginal, virtuous, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, defiled, dirty, lewd, unchaste, wanton |
| Main Entry: | clean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chaste, virtuous |
| Synonyms: | blameless, crimeless, decent, exemplary, faultless, good, guiltless, honorable, inculpable, innocent, modest, moral, respectable, sinless, undefiled, unguilty, unsullied, upright, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | besmirched, defiled, impure, unchaste, unvirtuous |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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