Meritorious vs Respectable - What's the difference?
meritorious | respectable | Related terms |
deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward
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.
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Meritorious is a related term of respectable.
As adjectives the difference between meritorious and respectable
is that meritorious is deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward while respectable is deserving respect.meritorious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The policeman received the Award of Meritorious Service from his grateful department.
