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 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, King James Version, 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.

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.
   • 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, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

アナグラム

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