Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Showing or marked by proper respect.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Marked or characterized by respect; showing respect: as, respectful deportment.
- Full of outward or formal civility; ceremonious.
- Worthy of respect; receiving respect.
- Synonyms Civil, dutiful, courteous, complaisant, deferential, polite.
Wiktionary
- adj. Marked or characterized by respect; as, respectful deportment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Marked or characterized by respect.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeling or manifesting veneration
- adj. full of or exhibiting respect
Etymologies
- respect + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“To this is added a severe rebuke of those who, by what they term respectful silence, pretend to obey the Apostolic”
“DANA BASH, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, you remember, Wolf, right after John McCain effectively clinched the Republican nomination, he said that he wanted all Republicans to run what he calls a respectful campaign.”
“But Lou it really is a fine line for McCain because he has set the bar so high for himself when it comes to running what he called a respectful campaign -- Lou.”
“The Republic Party is organizing what it calls a respectful opposition rally.”
“On the day Obama visits, the party is organizing what it calls a respectful opposition rally in Austin.”
“And one was, one -- a woman saying some things about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, saying, you know, some pretty negative things about them, and actually tried to hand John McCain a doll of Hillary Clinton which he kind of gave to an aide and said -- made the point of saying that it's all fine to have some humor, but wanted to really make the point, as he does many, many times, that he intends to have what he calls a respectful campaign in the fall.”
“But if you'd rather accuse me of lying than engage in respectful and intelligent discussion, that's fine.”
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
“As the party was looking on, a Laughing Jackass [kookaburra] sat gazing down in respectful silence, with no desire to show disloyalty by breaking out into a premier chuckle at the rather amusing scene.”
“The thing about demanding that our children are always respectful is that we are sending the message that we expect, and believe they are capable of self control, of checking their behavior, of moderating their tone of voice and actions.”
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Monsters | Her Bad Mother
“The simplest and most respectful is to do "Namaste" as the Hindus do.”
The Virtual Handshake, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘respectful’.
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Dominant/Submissive
abusive, adamant, autocratic, bossy, bullheaded, bumptious, certain, cock-a-hoop, cocksure, cocky, commanding, compelling and 189 more...
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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Words ending with -ful
doubtful, fanciful, fearful, forceful, graceful, healthful, respectful, successful, tasteful, thoughtful, pantsful
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slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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just vocab
courteous, sincere, confident, subordination, non-discriminary, knowledgeable, persuasive, inclined, overconfident, arrogant, presumptuous, goodwill and 29 more...
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