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Meaning of "honourless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HONOURLESS

honourless  [ˈɒnəlɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HONOURLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Honourless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HONOURLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of honourless in the English dictionary

The definition of honourless in the dictionary is having no honour.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HONOURLESS


acropolis
əˈkrɒpəlɪs
Annapolis
əˈnæpəlɪs
careless
ˈkɛəlɪs
chrysalis
ˈkrɪsəlɪs
containerless
kənˈteɪnəlɪs
dinnerless
ˈdɪnəlɪs
hairless
ˈhɛəlɪs
honorless
ˈɒnəlɪs
Indianapolis
ˌɪndɪəˈnæpəlɪs
mannerless
ˈmænəlɪs
metropolis
mɪˈtrɒpəlɪs
Minneapolis
ˌmɪnɪˈæpəlɪs
ownerless
ˈəʊnəlɪs
paperless
ˈpeɪpəlɪs
peerless
ˈpɪəlɪs
Perlis
ˈpɛəlɪs
powerless
ˈpaʊəlɪs
propolis
ˈprɒpəlɪs
tireless
ˈtaɪəlɪs
wireless
ˈwaɪəlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HONOURLESS

honour
honour bright
honour guard
honour killing
Honour Moderations
honour school
honour-bound
honourability
honourable
honourable discharge
honourable mention
honourableness
honourably
honoured
honourer
honours
honours course
honours degree
honours list
honours of war

WORDS THAT END LIKE HONOURLESS

borderless
bottomless
carless
cheerless
collarless
colorless
colourless
driverless
fatherless
fearless
fingerless
flourless
gearless
genderless
humorless
leaderless
motherless
rudderless
starless
tearless
waterless

Synonyms and antonyms of honourless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «honourless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HONOURLESS

Find out the translation of honourless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of honourless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «honourless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

honourless
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

honourless
570 millions of speakers

English

honourless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

honourless
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

honourless
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

honourless
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

honourless
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

honourer
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans honneur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penghormatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ehrlose
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

honourless
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

honourless
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Honourer
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

honourless
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

honourer
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अभिमानी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

honourer
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

honourless
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

honourless
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

honourless
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

honourless
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

honourless
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

honourless
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

honourless
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

æreløst
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of honourless

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HONOURLESS»

The term «honourless» is used very little and occupies the 189.450 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of honourless
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HONOURLESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «honourless» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «honourless» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about honourless

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HONOURLESS»

Discover the use of honourless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to honourless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Without Honour: The True Story of the Shafia Family and the ...
In Without Honour, award-winning journalist Rob Tripp draws on three years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews to make sense of a senseless crime in a way no other writer could.
Rob Tripp, 2013
2
The Orestea of Æschylus, tr. into Engl. verse by C.N. Dalton
Aeschylus. Chorus. We pursue matricides from house to house. Apollo. What 1 Of a mother who had slain her lord 1 Chorus. To slay a husband is not to slay kin. Apollo. Verily, honourless and set at naught By you were all the guarantees of ...
Aeschylus, 1868
3
Characteristic traits and domestic life of Frederick William ...
When the organization of the Landwehr took place, preparatory to the great struggle for freedom, the authorities had proposed that the caps should bear the energetic motto, " Weaponless, Honourless !" On one being submitted to the King for ...
Rulemann Friedrich Eylert, 1845
4
Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic
Oh, woe, woe, And sorrow, To me, to be His slave, Through every coming morrow , Till years lay me low, Low in an honourless grave ! My second tormentor, a weazen'd old pigmy, Delves in a mine, as though he would dig my Grave, or his own ...
Beautiful poetry, 1857
5
Women Without Men: Gender and Marginality in an Algerian Town
In any case the husband is seen as powerless and honourless. I suspect that Fadila 's husband paid for his fondness for prostitutes with venereal disease, infertility and impoverishment. Honourless and ill, he is lucky that his profitable wife ...
Willy Jansen, 1987
6
An Econometric and Game Theoretic Model of Common Pool ...
Dedicated Guard Resigned Honourless in Llli Ulli village can be reached by a trek of 3 km from Chaubetta Khal which is 2 km from Khirsu. The reserved forest is shared with a number of other villages. The van panchayat became effective ...
Wietze Lise, 2007
7
The Musical World
The act of positively annihilating the outward perceptible bonds of the honourless sensuality in question is, however, the healthy manifestation, incumbent on us, of this impulse, previously directed to self-destruction. — I felt an intense wish to ...
‎1871
8
An Anglo-Saxon dictionary
I. void of honour, honourless, disgraceful, infamous, wicked, impious; inhonestus, impius, infamis :—Hi|n idem cyn andswarodc the honourless race answered him, Cd. 114; Th. 149, 15; Gen. 24.75: 91; Th. 116, 10; Geo. 1934. 111061 ...
T.N. Toller
9
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
—that has condemned yourself to wander fortuneless and honourless over the cheerless face of the earth ?——Ay, ay, boy; yourgleaming eye and flushing cheek tell me the reply that your heart has already put forth. And I ask you, would it not ...
‎1832
10
The pictorial history of England during the reign of George ...
Indeed, without any comparison with the important transactions at home, the warlike operations in which the English were actively concerned were paltry and honourless in themselves, being, in fact, little more than an exhibition of Charles's  ...
George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, 1841

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HONOURLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term honourless is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Saraki, Change and the Question of Party Supremacy
Say, Nigeria's rulers stink like festering corpses/Their nuisance chokes the startled world/Honourless, truthless, with hearts of stone/In league, ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
2
Man found guilty of murder after nearly decapitating wife wants new …
She told him he was 'honourless,' illiterate and she called him a 'cuckold,'” his lawyer said in the appeal factum. “She also called his mother a ... «Globalnews.ca, Apr 15»
3
When winning is everything, it's sport that loses
But if we – as fans, pundits, commentators and administrators – allow such boorish, aggressive and honourless behaviour in the blind pursuit of ... «The Roar, Apr 15»
4
When Kabul Lost its Honour
... yet they were the most honourless men. The haunting thought of one woman being beaten to death by hundreds of men replays in my mind. «Khaama Press, Mar 15»
5
Sports Hotline LIVE: 'John Brown was doing a disservice to rodents …
Beside Easdale, Llambias, Leech and that cretin Somers it should have read honourless rather than honours." Stevie Campbell, Tollcross ... «Scottish Daily Record, Feb 15»
6
At Least 14 Dead As Kurdish Protesters Seeking Help Against ISIS …
Kurds only know honourless fight. In my city 13-15 years old kurdish children burned a big supermarket with molotof coctails while there were ... «Huffington Post, Oct 14»
7
Community Soapbox: How I learned that not all MMO PVP has to be …
A vile, debased creature, a treacherous cur, a honourless filth of the lowest calibre. We'd attacked, without provocation, without challenge, ... «games.on.net, Jul 14»
8
Convicted killer Mohammad Shafia didn't pay legal bills: lawyer
“It is difficult to conceive of a more heinous, more despicable, more honourless crime,” Justice Robert Maranger, the presiding judge, said after ... «Macleans.ca, Feb 14»
9
Hamed Shafia said he'd 'kill everyone' at sister's wedding if she left …
“May the devil shit on their graves… whore…honourless girl … They betrayed kindness, they betrayed Islam, they betrayed our religion and ... «National Post, Oct 12»
10
Danger to Egypt...Random thoughts
... this largest Arab country with its vast resources, a rich heritage of culture and civilisation, into a shameless, honourless colony of the West. «The News International, Jul 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Honourless [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/honourless>. May 2024 ».
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