Respected vs Esteem - What's the difference?
respected | esteem |
Describing one considered to be deserving of respect, who is due special honor or appreciation.
(respect)
favourable regard
To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
* Bible, Job xxxvi. 19
* Tennyson
To regard something as valuable; to prize.
To look upon something in a particular way.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15
* Bishop Gardiner
* Hawthorne
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. V, ''The English
(obsolete) To judge; to estimate; to appraise
As verbs the difference between respected and esteem
is that respected is past tense of respect while esteem is to set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.As an adjective respected
is describing one considered to be deserving of respect, who is due special honor or appreciation.As a noun esteem is
favourable regard.respected
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a well respected jurist and his death will be a loss to the profession.
Synonyms
* admired, well-regardedVerb
(head)Anagrams
*esteem
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) * esteeme (obsolete)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* self-esteemVerb
(en verb)- Will he esteem thy riches?
- You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
- Mary is an esteemed member of the community.
- Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
- Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
- And greatly do I respect the solid character, — a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well- conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned, — who esteems all ‘Customs once solemnly acknowledged’ to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.
- The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.
