Repute

Quick meaning: Repute is a noun meaning Reputation, especially a good reputation.

Meaning

Reputation, especially a good reputation.

More Meanings

1. To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
2. To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

Example Sentences

The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.

At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]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.

Word Forms

• reputes
• reputing
• reputed

Synonyms for repute

Depending on context, synonyms include esteem, reputation.

Antonyms for repute

Common opposites include discredit, disrepute.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reputation, esteem, credibility, prestige, honesty, well-known.

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