English
Etymology
From in- + decent.
Pronunciation
Adjective
indecent (comparative more indecent, superlative most indecent)
- Offensive to good taste.
- Synonyms: distasteful, in bad taste, in poor taste, offensive
- Not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest, or unseemly.
- Synonyms: immodest, immoral, improper, unseemly
- (criminal law) Generally unacceptable for public broadcasting but not legally obscene.
Derived terms
Translations
offensive to good taste
- Azerbaijani: ədəbsiz (az), həyasız, nalayiq, biədəb
- Belarusian: непрысто́йны (njeprystójny)
- Bulgarian: неприли́чен (bg) (neprilíčen), непристо́ен (bg) (nepristóen)
- Cherokee: ᏄᏁᎸᎾ (nunelvna)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不體面 / 不体面 (zh) (bùtǐmiàn)
- Czech: neslušný (cs)
- Danish: uanstændig, usømmelig (da)
- Dutch: onfatsoenlijk (nl), onbetamelijk (nl)
- Finnish: törkeä (fi), sopimaton (fi)
- French: indécent (fr)
- German: unanständig (de)
- Latin: indecēns
- Macedonian: непри́стоен (neprístoen)
- Maori: mōtekoteko
- Middle English: dishoneste
- Polish: nieprzyzwoity (pl)
- Portuguese: indecente (pt)
- Romanian: indecent (ro)
- Russian: неприли́чный (ru) (neprilíčnyj), непристо́йный (ru) (nepristójnyj)
- Scots: roch
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: непристојан, неукусан
- Roman: nepristojan (sh), neukusan (sh)
- Slovak: neslušný
- Slovene: nespodoben
- Ukrainian: непристо́йний (neprystójnyj)
- Welsh: anweddus (cy), aflednais (cy)
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not in keeping with conventional moral values
- Bulgarian: неподоба́ващ (bg) (nepodobávašt)
- Catalan: indecent (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 非禮 / 非礼 (zh) (fēilǐ)
- Danish: uanstændig, usømmelig (da)
- Finnish: säädytön (fi), sopimaton (fi)
- French: indécent (fr)
- German: unanständig (de), unkonventionell (de), unschicklich (de)
- Hebrew: מְגֻנֶּה (he) m (meguné)
- Japanese: いやらしい (ja) (iyarashii)
- Kabyle: amcum
- Latin: indecēns
- Macedonian: недо́личен (nedóličen), непри́личен (nepríličen)
- Maori: mōtekoteko
- Polish: nieobyczajny, nieprzyzwoity (pl)
- Portuguese: indecente (pt)
- Russian: неприли́чный (ru) (neprilíčnyj), неподоба́ющий (ru) (nepodobájuščij)
- Serbo-Croatian: nedoličan (sh), nepriličan (sh)
- Turkish: edepsiz (tr), yakışıksız (tr), hayasız
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Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French indécent, from Latin indecēns. Equivalent to in- + decent.
Pronunciation
Adjective
indecent m or n (feminine singular indecentă, masculine plural indecenți, feminine and neuter plural indecente)
- indecent
Declension
Declension of indecent
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masculine
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neuter
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feminine
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masculine
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neuter
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feminine
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nominative-
accusative
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indefinite
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indecent
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indecentă
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indecenți
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indecentul
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indecenta
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indecenții
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indecentele
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genitive-
dative
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indefinite
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indecent
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indecente
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indecenți
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indecente
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indecentului
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indecenților
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