Honorable

Quick meaning: Honorable is an adjective meaning Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.

Meaning

Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.

More Meanings

1. Worthy of respect; respectable.
2. Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.
3. A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".
4. (politics) A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.

Example Sentences

That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.

Uncheered by friends, unhissed by foes, the honorable member blandly continued his speech […]

Luxury was abolished. People lived in honorable marriage. All the women were chaste, faithful, and far from wantoners.

In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.

Word Forms

• honble
• honourable
• Honourable
• honorables

Synonyms for honorable

Depending on context, synonyms include estimable, noble, venerable, admirable, allowable, commendable.

Antonyms for honorable

Common opposites include contemptible, despicable, dishonorable, dishonest, dishonourable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include respectable, estimable, worthy, reputable, upstanding, honourable.

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