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Immaculate vs Decent - What's the difference?

immaculate | decent |

As adjectives the difference between immaculate and decent

is that immaculate is having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure while decent is decent (sufficiently clothed).

immaculate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
  • Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate . —
    Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. — Shakespeare, Richard II , V-iii.

    Synonyms

    * spotless * undefiled * unsullied

    Derived terms

    * Immaculate Conception * immaculately * immaculateness

    decent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.
  • (of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness.
  • Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen.
  • Fair; good enough; okay.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
  • Significant; substantial.
  • (obsolete) Comely; shapely; well-formed.
  • * A sable stole of cyprus lawn / Over thy decent shoulders drawn — Milton.
  • Antonyms

    * indecent

    Anagrams

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