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Respectable vs Resectable - What's the difference?

respectable | resectable |

As adjectives the difference between respectable and resectable

is that respectable is deserving respect while resectable is (surgery) suitable for resection.

respectable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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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  • Antonyms

    * disrespectable

    Derived terms

    * respectably

    resectable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (surgery) Suitable for resection
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