Honorable vs. Worthy — What's the Difference?

Deserving or winning honor and respect

Having or showing the qualities that deserve the specified action or regard

Bringing distinction or recognition

Characterized by good intent but lacking in humour or imagination

Possessing and characterized by honor

A person notable or important in a particular sphere

Consistent with honor or good name

Having worth, merit, or value

Distinguished; illustrious

Honorable; admirable

Attended by marks of recognition and honor

Having sufficient worth; deserving

Used as a title of respect for certain high government officials

An eminent or distinguished person.

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

Having worth, merit, or value.

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

Admirable or honourable.

Worthy of respect; respectable.

Deserving, or having sufficient worth.

(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.

Suited; suitable; befitting.

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

A distinguished or eminent person.

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

(transitive) To render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.

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

Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.

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

Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; - usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; - usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.

Conferring honor, or produced by noble deeds.

Of high station; of high social position.

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

A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; - much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.

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

To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.

Of reputable association or use; respectable.

Word is often used humorously

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

Having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable;

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

Worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse;

Showing or characterized by honor and integrity;

Meriting respect or esteem;

Used as a title of respect;

Having high moral qualities;

Adhering to ethical and moral principles;

Morally admirable;

Deserving of esteem and respect;