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Well-behaved vs Respectable - What's the difference?

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Well-behaved is a related term of respectable.


As adjectives the difference between well-behaved and respectable

is that well-behaved is (of a person or animal) having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour; while respectable is deserving respect.

well-behaved

English

(wikipedia well-behaved)

Adjective

  • (of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;
  • :The boy is well behaved and is seldom naughty.
  • (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties. Especially:
  • (mathematics) (of a function ) Having a finite derivative (of all orders) at all points, and having no discontinuities

    • Synonyms

    * well-mannered * seemly

    Antonyms

    * ill behaved * (mathematics) pathological

    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