Fromrespect +-able.
respectable (comparativemorerespectable,superlativemostrespectable)
- Deservingrespect.
His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him arespectable person.
1892,Walter Besant, chapter III, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC: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 allrespectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
- Decent;satisfactory.
Turn up to the interview wearing somethingrespectable. She plays arespectable game of chess. He got arespectable B+ on his last exam.
- Moderatelywell-to-do.
deserving respect
- Arabic:محترم
- Bulgarian:почтен (bg)(počten),уважаван (bg)(uvažavan)
- Catalan:respectable (ca)
- Cherokee:ᎠᏥᎸᏉᏗ(atsilvquodi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:受人尊敬的(shòu rén zūnjìng de),可敬 (zh)(kějìng),體面的 /体面的 (zh)(tǐmiàn de),尊貴 /尊贵 (zh)(zūnguì)
- Czech:vážený (cs) m,úctyhodný (cs) m
- Danish:respektabel (da)
- Esperanto:respektinda
- Finnish:kunnioitettava (fi)
- French:respectable (fr)
- Galician:respectable (gl)
- German:angesehen (de),geachtet (de)
- Gothic:𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌸𐍃(gariuþs)
- Greek:ευυπόληπτος (el)(evypóliptos),αξιοσέβαστος (el)(axiosévastos)
- Ido:respektinda (io)
- Irish:oiriúnach
- Italian:rispettabile (it)
- Japanese:尊ぶべき (ja)(tōtobu beki)
- Latin:reverendus (la)
- Norman:respectabl'ye
- Polish:godny szacunku
- Portuguese:respeitável (pt)
- Romanian:respectabil (ro)
- Russian:уважа́емый (ru)(uvažájemyj),почте́нный (ru)(počténnyj),респекта́бельный (ru)(respektábelʹnyj)
- Sanskrit:प्रमुख (sa)(pramukha)
- Spanish:respetable (es)
- Telugu:మర్యాదైన(maryādaina)
- Turkish:saygıdeğer (tr),saygın (tr)
- Ukrainian:пова́жний(povážnyj)
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respectable (pluralrespectables)
- A person who is respectable.
1872, Thomas Cooper,The Life of Thomas Cooper, page221:They forced their way into the meetings called by therespectables; and therespectables disappeared. It was of their own respectable good pleasure that they withdrew.
2014, Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, Alexandra Murphy,The Urban Ethnography Reader, page38:The “respectables”, then, impute to themselves an absence of such character blemishes, or stated in more positive terms, an allegiance to American mainstream morality.
respectable m orf (masculine and feminine pluralrespectables)
- respectable
Fromrespect +-able.
respectable (pluralrespectables)
- respectable
respectable m orf (pluralrespectables)
- respectable
