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発音

• (米国発音) IPA: [ɹɪˈspɛk.tə.bl̩]

形容詞

respectable (comparative more respectable, superlative most respectable)

1. Deserving respect.

   Synonyms: admirable, laudable, venerable; see also Thesaurus:respectable

   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.

同意語

• honorable
• savory

反意語

• contemptible
• despicable
• disrespectable
• unrespectable

派生語

関連する語

• respectability
• respectabilize
• respectably

名詞

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.

   • 1978 February 11, Michael Bronski, “The Gayest Parade In Town”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 31, page 13:

     The tensions between the "respectables" and the "gay spoilers"

   • 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.

参考

• respectful
• respective