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Obedient vs Respectable - What's the difference?

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Obedient is a related term of respectable.


As adjectives the difference between obedient and respectable

is that obedient is willing]] to [[comply#verb|comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority while respectable is deserving respect.

obedient

English

Alternative forms

* (qualifier)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Willing]] to [[comply#Verb, comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority.
  • Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l)

    Antonyms

    * disobedient * dominant

    respectable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deserving respect.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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