Honorable

/ˈɒn.ə ɹəbl̩/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
2. Worthy of respect; respectable.
3. Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.
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.
5. A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".

Example Sentences

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.

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

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

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

These included a reception for the Congress participants, given by the city of Barcelona in a 14th century palace, with guards making room for the mayor and other honorables, […]

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• more honorable
• most honorable
• honble
• Honorable
• honourable
• Honourable
• honorables

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