Respectability

Quick meaning: Respectability is a noun meaning The quality of being respectable.

Meaning

The quality of being respectable.

More Meanings

1. The class of respectable people.

Example Sentences

Though he knew it not, the subtle spirit of vagabondage had taken possession of his soul, and even of his hat, which seemed suddenly to have lost its original respectability, and acquired an air of dissoluteness.

But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.

Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

Word Forms

• respectabilities

Synonyms for respectability

Depending on context, synonyms include reputability.

Antonyms for respectability

Common opposites include unrespectability, disreputability, disreputableness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reputability, respect, decency, decorum, dignity, propriety.

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