Respected vs Respectable - What's the difference?
respected | respectable |
Describing one considered to be deserving of respect, who is due special honor or appreciation.
(respect)
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 respected and respectable
is that respected is describing one considered to be deserving of respect, who is due special honor or appreciation while respectable is deserving respect.As a verb respected
is past tense of respect.respected
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a well respected jurist and his death will be a loss to the profession.