Definitions for respectability

respectability re·spect·a·bil·i·ty

Spelling: [ri-spek-tuh-bil-i-tee]
IPA: /rɪˌspɛk təˈbɪl ɪ ti/

Respectability is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 23 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 2618 anagrams from letters in respectability (abceeiilprstty).

Definitions for respectability

noun

  1. the state or quality of being respectable.
  2. respectable social standing, character, or reputation.
  3. a respectable person or persons.
  4. respectabilities, things accepted as respectable.

Origin of respectability

First recorded in 1775-85; respectable + -ity

Examples for respectability

A sort of New England respectability and quietness hung over it.

Somehow, a bold and eccentric encampment gave heart to progressives at all levels of respectability.

respectability awaits even iconoclasts if they stick around long enough.

Of course, there was no such search for him as is made for the man of respectability and position.

Or, to put this another way, the person who puts her hope in respectability is like the foolish man who built his house on sand.

Officialdom is their divinity and respectability their key to life.

Dignity and respectability have ruined alike the historian and the biographer.

She was in fact a satirist of society, and of its notions of respectability.

And after the striking of the blow, this respectability was continued in immobility and silence.

Queen Victoria was the mother of the new era of respectability, but her father Edward, Duke of Kent, had a mistress for 25 years.

Word Value for respectability
Scrable

23

Words with friends

26

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