respectable
adj/ɹɪˈspɛk.tə.bl̩/US
Etymology
From respect + -able.
Definitions
Deserving respect.
- His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.
Decent
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.
Moderately well-to-do.
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A person who is respectable.
- 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.
- The tensions between the "respectables" and the "gay spoilers"
- The “respectables”, then, impute to themselves an absence of such character blemishes, or stated in more positive terms, an allegiance to American mainstream morality.
The neighborhood
- synonymhonorable
- synonymsavory
- synonymadmirable
- synonymallowable
- synonymcommendable
- synonymcreditable
- synonymestimable
- synonymglorious
- synonymlaudable
- synonympraiseworthy
- synonymrespectable
- synonymreverable
- antonymcontemptible
- antonymdespicable
- antonymdisrespectable
- antonymunrespectable
- antonymunfamous
- neighborrespectability
- neighborrespectabilize
- neighborrespectably
- neighbordignified
- neighbormeedful
- neighbormeritorious
- neighborrevered
- neighbornotable
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at respectable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at respectable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at respectable
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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