respectably

1. 1.

   to a tolerably worthy extent

   “he did respectably well for his age”

   Synonymscreditably
2. 2.

   in a decent and morally reputable manner

   “the film ends with the middle-aged romancers respectably married”

Questions about respectably

What does respectably mean?

respectably means "to a tolerably worthy extent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in respectably?

respectably has 4 syllables: re-spec-ta-bly. The stress falls on "spec". In IPA it is /ɹiˈspɛktəbli/.

What is another word for respectably?

Close synonyms include creditably. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is respectably a common word?

respectably is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.