Honorable vs. Humble — What's the Difference?

Deserving or winning honor and respect

Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.

Bringing distinction or recognition

Showing deferential or submissive respect

Possessing and characterized by honor

Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly

Consistent with honor or good name

To cause to feel humble

Distinguished; illustrious

To cause to have a lower condition or status; abase.

Attended by marks of recognition and honor

Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

Used as a title of respect for certain high government officials

Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

Used as a courtesy title for the children of barons and viscounts and the younger sons of earls.

(ambitransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of

Used in the House of Commons as a title of respect when speaking of another member.

To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.

Worthy of respect; respectable.

To hum.

(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.

(transitive) hummel.

A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".

An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.

Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation.

Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.

Proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive.

Hornless. See Hummel.

Conferring honor, or produced by noble deeds.

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

Worthy of respect; regarded with esteem; to be commended; consistent with honor or rectitude.

To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; - often used rexlexively.

Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; as, an honorable burial.

Cause to be unpretentious;

Of reputable association or use; respectable.

Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;

An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman.

Low or inferior in station or quality;

Not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent;

Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;

Showing or characterized by honor and integrity;

Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

Used as a title of respect;

Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);

Adhering to ethical and moral principles;

Deserving of esteem and respect;