Redoubtable vs Respectable - What's the difference?
redoubtable | respectable |
Eliciting respect or fear; imposing; awe-inspiring.
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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As adjectives the difference between redoubtable and respectable
is that redoubtable is eliciting respect or fear; imposing; awe-inspiring while respectable is deserving respect.redoubtable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The redoubtable New York Times has been called the "newspaper of record" of the United States.