respectable

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Etymology

respect +‎ -able

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Adjective

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 , 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 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.

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Noun

respectable (plural respectables)

  1. A person who is respectable.
    • 1872, Thomas Cooper, The Life of Thomas Cooper, page 221:
      They forced their way into the meetings called by the respectables; and the respectables disappeared. It was of their own respectable good pleasure that they withdrew.
    • 2014, Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, Alexandra Murphy, The Urban Ethnography Reader, page 38:
      The “respectables”, then, impute to themselves an absence of such character blemishes, or stated in more positive terms, an allegiance to American mainstream morality.

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Catalan

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respectable m or f (masculine and feminine plural respectables)

  1. respectable

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French

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From respect +‎ -able.

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respectable (plural respectables)

  1. respectable

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Galician

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respectable m or f (plural respectables)

  1. respectable

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