Obedient vs Respectable - What's the difference?
obedient | respectable | Related terms |
Willing]] to [[comply#Verb, comply with the (l), orders, or (l) of those in authority.
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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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
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Alternative forms
* (qualifier)Adjective
(en adjective)- Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.