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Laudable vs Respectable - What's the difference?

laudable | respectable | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between laudable and respectable

is that laudable is worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition while respectable is deserving respect.

laudable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.
  • Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus.

    • Synonyms

    * praiseworthy, commendable

    References

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    respectable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deserving respect.
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  • *: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.
  • Decent; satisfactory.
  • :

    • Antonyms

    * disrespectable

    Derived terms

    * respectably