What does discreto in Italian mean?

What is the meaning of the word discreto in Italian? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use discreto in Italian.

The word discreto in Italian means careful, decent, fair, all right, moderate, reasonable, discrete, distinguish, discern, recognize, perceive, the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word discreto

careful

aggettivo (non invadente)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
Se non ti va puoi anche non dirmelo, lo sai che sono una persona discreta.
You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, you know I'm discreet.

decent, fair, all right

aggettivo (di qualità sufficiente)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
Le porzioni in quel ristorante sono discrete.
The restaurant's portions are decent (or: fair).

moderate, reasonable

aggettivo (con moderazione)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
Mi raccomando di farne un uso discreto.
ⓘQuesta frase non è una traduzione della frase inglese. The novel was a moderate success, but not a best seller.

discrete

aggettivo (matematica: non continuo)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
Una variabile è discreta quando i valori che può assumere sono finiti.
A variable is discrete when it can have a finite number of values.

distinguish

verbo transitivo o transitivo pronominale (distinguere)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Bisogna discernere i lati positivi da quelli negativi.
You have to distinguish the positive sides from the negative ones.

discern, recognize, perceive

verbo transitivo o transitivo pronominale (figurato, letterario (vedere chiaro, ravvisare)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Il buio impediva ai marinai di discernere la terra.
Darkness prevented the sailors from recognizing the mainland.

the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie

(expression: Prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, or other phrase or expression--for example, "behind the times," "on your own.")

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Italian (italiano) is a Romance language and is spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Italian uses the Latin alphabet. The letters J, K, W, X and Y do not exist in the standard Italian alphabet, but they still appear in loanwords from Italian. Italian is the second most widely spoken in the European Union with 67 million speakers (15% of the EU population) and it is spoken as a second language by 13.4 million EU citizens (3%). Italian is the principal working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. An important event that helped to the spread of Italian was Napoleon's conquest and occupation of Italy in the early 19th century. This conquest spurred the unification of Italy several decades later and pushed the language of the Italian language. Italian became a language used not only among secretaries, aristocrats and the Italian courts, but also by the bourgeoisie.