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respect Definition

re·spect (ri spekt′)

transitive verb

    1. to feel or show honor or esteem for; hold in high regard
    2. to consider or treat with deference or dutiful regard
  2. to show consideration for; avoid intruding upon or interfering with to respect others' privacy
  3. to concern; relate to

Etymology: < L respectus, pp. of respicere, to look at, look back on, respect < re-, back + specere, to look at: see spy

noun

  1. a feeling of high regard, honor, or esteem to have respect for a great artist
  2. a state of being held in honor or esteem to have the respect of one's sons
  3. deference or dutiful regard respect for the law
  4. consideration; courteous regard to have respect for the feelings of others
  5. courteous expressions of regard: now chiefly in pay one's respects, to show polite regard by visiting or presenting oneself
  6. a particular point or detail right in every respect
  7. reference; relation with respect to the problem

Etymology: ME respecte < L respectus, a looking at, respect, regard: pp. used as n.

  • respeak
  • respecify
respect Idioms

in respect of

with reference to; as regards

respect Synonyms

respect

n.

esteem, honor, regard, deference; see admiration, honor 1, reverence 1.

in all respects

entirely, outright, wholly, thoroughly, altogether, totally, utterly, at all points, in every respect, on all counts, quite, throughout; see also completely.

pay one's respects

wait upon, show regard, be polite; see visit 4.

with respect to

concerning, in reference to, in regard to, in respect of; see about 2, regarding, respecting.

respect Synonyms

respect

v.

  1. To esteem

    regard, value, look up to; see admire 1.

  2. To treat with consideration

    heed, appreciate, consider, note, recognize, defer to, show consideration for, show regard for, do honor to, be kind to, show courtesy to, spare, take into account, attend, uphold, refrain from intruding upon; see also regard 1.

    Antonyms ridicule*, mock, scorn. See syn. study at regard.regard.

respect Usage Examples

Object

  • confidentiality: A: Research instruments must respect the confidentiality of all parties in all mediation cases.
  • privacy: The aforementioned business reasons for respecting privacy are primarily given in chapter two.
  • wish: When he came to the throne in 1936 he respected the wish of Queen Victoria that no future king should ever be called Albert.
  • autonomy: Respecting autonomy in the two cases has radically different implications.

Converse of object

  • deserve: The investigative journalism presented within this report is exquisite and deserves respect from all aspiring journalists and general public alike.
  • earn: I'm just a humble Open Source Perl Developer who wants to write good software and earn respect for it.
  • command: Property of all kinds making for human comfort commands the respect of all men.
  • gain: He gained no such respect from officialdom back home.

Adjective modifier

  • mutual: New ideas are tested in practice in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
  • utmost: I have the utmost respect for those that can provide such a service.
  • grudging: Most pathologists have a grudging respect for the tenacity and success of plant pathogens.
  • profound: I have a profound respect for science and scientists, but truth is not what science is about.
  • deep: I see him a prefects ' meetings and here he showed a deep respect for the growing mind.
  • many: In many respects Wodehouse was a deeply ordinary man.

Modifies a noun

  • agenda: If this really is the ' Respect Agenda ' then what it is, is a GNVQ is community work.
  • councilor: Limehouse, a majority white area with a population just 30 percent Bangladeshi, returned two Respect councilors.

Noun used with modifier

  • self: This song is an elegaic piece for everything I lost in those years: much self respect and the optimism of youth.

Preposition: of

  • breach: The Defenders counterclaimed in respect of an alleged breach of one of the contracts.
  • claim: Any difficulties in respect of claims for loss of business goodwill in blight cases should be referred via RD to CEO.

Preposition: for

  • dignity: Respect for the inextinguishable dignity of each and every human being must be paramount.
respect Quotes

It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

—Stein, Gertrude

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

—Shaw, George Bernard

We shall never forget the mingled feelings of awe and respect with which we used to gaze on the exterior of Newgate in our schoolboy days†[the doors] looking as if they were made for the express purpose of letting people in, and never letting them out again.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

Maxima debetur puero reverentia, si quid turpe paras. If you are planning any misdeed, never forget that a child has a first claim on your respect.

—Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

That long frontier fromthe Atlantic tothe Pacificoceans, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an exampleto everycountryand a pattern for the future of the world.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

   or we may hold them in respect and affection as fellow creepers on a commodious planet saying,'Yes you too you too are people'.

—Sandburg, Carl

How Idid respect you whenyoudaredtospeak thetruth to me! Men don't know women, or they would be harder to them.

—Trollope, Anthony

How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make every one wretched for 24 hours.

—James, Alice

Fine clothes are good onlyas they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

   For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again: neither doth God respect any person.

—Bible (Old Testament)

I'm glad you like adverbsöI adore them; theyare the only qualifications I really much respect.

—James, Henry

It is increasingly rare for many of us†to believe that people can be poor, but honest, poor but deserving of respect. Poverty is no longer blamed on anyone but the poor themselves.Contempt for the poor has become a virtue.

—O'Connor, Cardinal JohnJoseph

   What perished in France in1830 was not respect for a dynasty, but respect for anything.

—Louis Philippe known as  the Citizen King

Nothing has conduced more to shake that decent respect for the living symbol of thestatethat goes by the name of royalty than the ever-recurring rattle of the money box.

—Labouche'  re, Henry Du Pre¤

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

—Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson

   To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

—de Gaulle, Charles

O that faint word, respect ! how I disdain it!

—Dryden,John

When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

—O'Flaherty, Liam

Whenpeopledonot respect uswearesharplyoffended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

—Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro