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HONOURABLE definition: 1. honest and fair, or deserving praise and respect: 2. a title used before the name of some…. Learn more.
conscientious in the completion of her assignments. scrupulous in carrying out the terms of the will. honorable suggests a firm holding to codes of right behavior and the guidance of a high sense of honor and duty. a difficult but honorable decision.
If you describe people or actions as honourable, you mean that they are good and deserve to be respected and admired.
HONORABLE definition: 1. US spelling of honourable UK 2. US spelling of Honourable 3. honest and fair, or deserving…. Learn more.
HONORABLE meaning: 1. US spelling of honourable UK 2. US spelling of Honourable 3. honest and fair, or deserving…. Learn more.
used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting. moral. concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles. noble. having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character.
The word honorable has to do with people and actions that are honest, fair, and worthy of respect. An honorable person is someone who believes in truth and doing the right thing — and tries to live up to those high principles. When you lose a game, it's honorable to shake hands.
Definition of honourable adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Honourable definition: possessing or characterized by high principles. See examples of HONOURABLE used in a sentence.
The meaning of HONOUR is chiefly British spellings of honor.
