honorable

Meaning

Adjective

• Worthy of respect; respectable.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• venerable
• noble
• Hon'ble
• Hon.

Opposite words

• despicable
• contemptible
• mean

Origin

• From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō; cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. Surface analysis is honor + -able.