respectとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɛkt/
• 韻: -ɛkt
• ハイフネーション: re‧spect

名詞

respect (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 respects)

1. (uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard

   He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him.

   We do respect people for their dignity and worth.

   Synonyms: deference, esteem, consideration, regard, fealty, reverence, aught

2. (uncountable) good opinion, honor, or admiration

   Synonyms: admiration, esteem, reverence, regard, recognition, veneration, honor

3. (uncountable, always 複数形) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.

   The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet.

4. (countable) a particular aspect, feature or detail of something
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 36”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     In our two loves there is but one respect

   This year's model is superior to last year's in several respects.

   Synonyms: aspect, dimension, face, facet, side

5. Good will; favor
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Exodus 2:25:

     And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

使用する際の注意点

• Adjectives often applied to "respect": great, high, utmost, absolute

反意語

派生語

関連する語

• respective

動詞

respect (三人称単数 現在形 respects, 現在分詞 respecting, 過去形および過去分詞形 respected)

1. To have respect for.

   She is an intellectual giant, and I respect her greatly.

2. To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.

   I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.

   I respect your right to feel offended, even though most people, myself included, totally disagree and don’t find the comment offensive in the slightest.

3. To abide by an agreement.

   They failed to respect the treaty they had signed, and invaded.

4. To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, OCLC 213833262, [Act II, scene i]:

     [T]hou reſpecteſt not ſpilling Edwards bloud: [...]

   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A VVorke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], page 33, OCLC 1044372886:

     We haue also large and various Orchards, and Gardens; Wherein we doe not ſo much reſpect Beauty, as Variety of Ground and Soile, proper for diuerſe Trees and Herbs: [...]

5. (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.
   • 1674, John Owen, Pneumatologia:

     Whatever they are else, they are always chastisements; and correction respects faults.

   • 1806, James Lee, An Introduction to Botany:

     Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:

     I hope I may never again be in a state of mind so unchristian as the mental frame in which I lived for some weeks, respecting the memory of Master B.

6. (obsolete) To regard; to consider; to deem.
   • c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, OCLC 1203228598, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     [T]his my friend (knowen by no name) was found, / Being then a child and ſcarce of power to ſpeake, / To whom my father gaue this name of Gaſper, / And as his own reſpected him to death, [...]

     That is, regarded him as his own.

7. (obsolete) To look toward; to face.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of East and West”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203, 6th book, page 263:

     That Palladius adviſeth the front of his edifice ſhould ſo reſpect the South, that in the firſt angle it receive the riſing raies of the winter Sunne, and decline a little from the winter ſetting thereof.

派生語

同意語

• (to have respect for): esteem, honor, revere, venerate
• (to regard as worthy of special consideration): esteem, value
• (to abide by an agreement): honor

反意語

• (to have respect for): contemn, despect (verb) (古風な用法), despise, dis, diss, disrespect (verb)
• (to regard as worthy of special consideration): belittle, ignore, neglect, slight

間投詞

respect

1. (Jamaican) hello, hi

参照

• respect at OneLook Dictionary Search
• respect in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• “respect” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “respect” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

アナグラム

• Sceptre, recepts, scepter, sceptre, specter, spectre