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Obliging vs Respectable - What's the difference?

obliging | respectable | Related terms |

Obliging is a related term of respectable.


As adjectives the difference between obliging and respectable

is that obliging is happy and ready to do favours for others while respectable is deserving respect.

As a verb obliging

is .

obliging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Happy and ready to do favours for others.

    • Synonyms

    * accommodating, willing

    Derived terms

    * obligingness

    Verb

    (head)

    • 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