different between commendable vs respectable

English

Etymology

From Middle English commendable, from Middle French commendable, from Latin commendabilis, from commendare (“to commend, intrust to”), from com- + mandare (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m?nd?b?l/

Adjective

commendable (comparative more commendable, superlative most commendable)

1. Worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable, or meritorious.
   • circa 1600, The Merchant of Venice,Act I, scene I:

     LThanks,i' faith; for silence is only commendable/In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.

Related terms

• commend
• commendation
• commendatory

Translations

See also

• commandable

Further reading

• commendable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• commendable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• commendable at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Alternative forms

• comendable, commendabell, commendabil, commendabill

Etymology

From Middle French commendable, from Latin commendabilis; equivalent to commenden +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?m?nd?a?b?l/, /k??m?nd?a?b?l/, /-bl?/

Adjective

commendable

1. commendable, admirable
2. (rare) praised

Descendants

• English: commendable

References

• “com(m)end?ble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2020-01-31.

English

Etymology

respect +? -able

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): [?i.?sp?k.t?.bl?]

Adjective

respectable (comparative more respectable, superlative most respectable)

1. 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.

2. Decent; satisfactory.

3. Moderately well-to-do.

Synonyms

• honorable

Antonyms

• contemptible
• despicable
• disrespectable

Related terms

• respectability
• respectabilize
• respectably

Translations

See also

• respectful
• respective

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r?s.p?k?ta.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /res.pek?ta.ble/

Adjective

respectable (masculine and feminine plural respectables)

1. respectable

Derived terms

• respectabilitat

Related terms

• respectar

Further reading

• “respectable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “respectable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “respectable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “respectable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

respect +? -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.p?k.tabl/
• Homophone: respectables
• Hyphenation: res?pec?table

Adjective

respectable (plural respectables)

1. respectable

Derived terms

• respectablement

Further reading

• “respectable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• respectábel

Adjective

respectable m or f (plural respectables)

1. respectable

Derived terms

• respectabilidade

Related terms

• respectar

Further reading

• “respectable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.