honourable

Questions about honourable

What does honourable mean?

honourable means "worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in honourable?

honourable has 4 syllables: ho-nou-ra-ble. The stress falls on "ho". In IPA it is /ˈɑnɚəbəl/.

What is another word for honourable?

Close synonyms include honorable, ethical, honorable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is honourable a common word?

honourable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with honourable?

1 word rhymes with honourable. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.