Commendable vs Respectable - What's the difference?
commendable | respectable | Related terms |
Worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable or meritorious.
* circa 1600 , The Merchant of Venice ,Act I, scene I:
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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Commendable is a related term of respectable.
As adjectives the difference between commendable and respectable
is that commendable is worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable or meritorious while respectable is deserving respect.commendable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- LThanks,i' faith; for silence is only commendable /In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.