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Respectable vs Gradely - What's the difference?

respectable | gradely |

As adjectives the difference between respectable and gradely

is that respectable is deserving respect while gradely is (northern england) of a person; decent, well-meaning, respectable.

As an adverb gradely is

properly, really.

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

    gradely

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Northern England) of a person; decent, well-meaning, respectable
  • * : "My work has meant travelling the world over, to great places and small, but home to me always means Rochdale and its gradely folk."
  • excellent
  • * 1881 , Elizabeth Sophia Watson, Crabtree Fold: A Tale of the Lancashire Moors , page 53:
    • Yo're well off to ha' Betsy Ogden comin' in; she's a gradely worker.
  • handsome, fair
  • * 1863 , , page 13:
    • This is a hard road for a gradely foot like that. Will ye up, lass, and ride behind me?
  • real, proper

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • properly, really

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