Immaculate vs Decent - What's the difference?
immaculate | decent |
Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
(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 Significant; substantial.
(obsolete) Comely; shapely; well-formed.
* A sable stole of cyprus lawn / Over thy decent shoulders drawn — Milton.
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)- 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 * unsulliedDerived terms
* Immaculate Conception * immaculately * immaculatenessdecent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}
