different between honorable vs ignoble

English

Alternative forms

• honble (obsolete)
• Honorable (honorific)
• (British spelling:) honourable, Honourable (honorific)

Etymology

From Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin hon?r?bilis, from hon?r? (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. Surface analysis is honor +? -able.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?n??r?bl, ?n?r?bl, IPA^(key): /??n???bl?/, /??n??bl?/
• (General American) enPR: ?n??r?bl, ?n?r?bl, IPA^(key): /??n???bl?/, /??n??bl?/
• Hyphenation: hon?or?able, honor?able

Adjective

honorable (comparative more honorable, superlative most honorable) (American spelling)

1. Worthy of respect; respectable.
2. (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.

Synonyms

• venerable
• noble
• Hon'ble
• Hon.

Antonyms

• despicable
• contemptible
• mean

Derived terms

• Hon., Hon'ble, Honourable
• honorably, honourably
• (politics): right honorable, right honourable

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hon?r?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.no??a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.nu??a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.no??a.ble/

Adjective

honorable (masculine and feminine plural honorables)

1. honorable

Derived terms

• honorablement

Further reading

• “honorable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “honorable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “honorable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “honorable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], borrowed from Latin hon?r?bilis.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?.n?.?abl/

Adjective

honorable (plural honorables)

1. honorable

Derived terms

• faire amende honorable
• hon.
• très honorable

Related terms

• honneur

Further reading

• “honorable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• honorábel

Etymology

From Latin hon?r?bilis.

Adjective

honorable m or f (plural honorables)

1. honorable

Related terms

• honor
• honra

Further reading

• “honorable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hon?r?bilis. Equivalent to honor +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ono??able/, [o.no??a.??le]

Adjective

honorable (plural honorables)

1. honorable

   Synonym: honesto

Derived terms

• honorablemente

Related terms

• honor
• honra
• honrar

Further reading

• “honorable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ignoble, from Latin ign?bilis, from in- (“not”) + gn?bilis, later n?bilis (“noble”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???n??b?l/
• Rhymes: -??b?l

Adjective

ignoble (comparative ignobler, superlative ignoblest)

1. Not noble; plebeian; common.
2. Not honorable; base.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife

3. Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ignoble.

Synonyms

• (common): common, plebeian, vulgar
• (not honorable): degenerate, mean, base, vile, low-minded, reproachful, shameful, disgraceful

Antonyms

• (common): noble
• (not honorable): noble, honorable

Derived terms

• ignobility
• ignobleness
• ignobly

Translations

Verb

ignoble (third-person singular simple present ignobles, present participle ignobling, simple past and past participle ignobled)

1. To make ignoble; to bring low.

Anagrams

• Gobelin, gobline, inglobe

French

Etymology

From Middle French ignoble, borrowed from Latin ign?bilis, from in- (“not”) + gn?bilis, later n?bilis (“noble”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.??bl/

Adjective

ignoble (plural ignobles)

1. disgusting, repulsive, horrible

Further reading

• “ignoble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gobelin