• (America) IPA: [ɹi.ˈspɛk.tə.bl̩]

respectable

1. Deserving respect.

   His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:

     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.

• honorable

• contemptible
• despicable
• disrespectable

• respectability
• respectabilize
• respectably

• French: respectable
• German: angesehen, geachtet
• Portuguese: respeitável
• Russian: уважа́емый
• Spanish: respetable

• French: convenable, (informal) pas mal