respectable
[ɹɪˈspɛk.tə.bɫ̩]
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
noun
A person who is respectable.
Example Sentences
- "His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person."
- "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."
- "Don't you find respectable people terribly dull?"
- "Turn up to the interview wearing something respectable. She plays a respectable game of chess. He got a respectable B+ on his last exam."
- "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""
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Italic *spekjō Latin speciō Latin respiciō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin respectus Old French respectbor. Middle English respect English respectdenom. English respect Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English respectable From respect + -able.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [ɹɪˈspɛk.tə.bɫ̩]