different between obedient vs honorable

English

Etymology

From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboedi?ns, present active participle of oboedi? (“obey”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bi?d??nt/, /???bi?d??nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bidi?nt/, /o??bidi?nt/
• Hyphenation: obe?di?ent

Adjective

obedient (comparative more obedient, superlative most obedient)

1. Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority.

Synonyms

• hearsome
• dutiful

Antonyms

• disobedient
• dominant

Related terms

• obedience
• obey

Translations

Noun

obedient (plural obedients)

1. One who obeys.
   • 2002, John Michael Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (page 48)

     Damn the obedients and hail the defiants if you will; the experiment does not motivate confidence about how particular subjects would behave in markedly dissimilar situations.

Further reading

• obedient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• obedient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin oboedi?ns, present active participle of oboedi? (“obey”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.b?.di?ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.b?.di?en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.be.di?ent/

Adjective

obedient (masculine and feminine plural obedients)

1. obedient

   Antonym: desobedient

Derived terms

• obedientment

Related terms

• obediència
• obeir

Further reading

• “obedient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Verb

ob?dient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ob?di?

Old French

Etymology

From Latin oboedi?ns, present active participle of oboedi? (“obey”).

Adjective

obedient m (oblique and nominative feminine singular obedient or obediente)

1. obedient

Declension

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.