respectable

respect +‎ -able

• (US) IPA^(key): [ɹi.ˈspɛk.tə.bl̩]

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respectable (comparative more respectable, superlative most respectable)

1. Deserving respect.

   His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.

2. Decent; satisfactory.

   Turn up to the interview wearing something respectable.  She plays a respectable game of chess.  He got a respectable B+ on his last exam.

3. Moderately well-to-do.

• venerable

• contemptible
• disrespectable

• respectably

• respectful
• respective

respectable (masculine and feminine plural respectables)

1. respectable

• respectabilitat
• respectar
• respecte
• respectiu
• respectivament
• respectuós
• respectuosament

respect +‎ -able

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.pɛk.tabl/

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• Homophone: respectables
• Hyphenation: res‧pec‧table

respectable (plural respectables)

1. respectable

• respectablement

• “respectable” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).