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Respectfully vs Respectable - What's the difference?

respectfully | respectable |

As an adverb respectfully

is in a respectful manner.

As an adjective respectable is

deserving respect.

respectfully

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a respectful manner.

    • See also

    * respectively

    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