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Honourable vs Honoured - What's the difference?

honourable | honoured |

As adjectives the difference between honoured and honourable

is that honoured is respected, having received honour while honourable is alternative form of lang=en.

As a verb honoured

is past tense of honour.

honourable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (British spelling)
  • * 1846 , George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2 , page 474
    • It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

    Derived terms

    * honourably

    honoured

    English

    Alternative forms

    * honored (mainly US )

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Respected, having received honour.
  • * 2005 , .
    • One of them is the time-honoured method of our forefathers

    Verb

    (head)
  • (honour)