dishonour
UK/dɪsˈɒnə(ɹ)/
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obsolete/dɪzˈɒnəɹ/
dishonour noun: shame or disgrace.
Noun
dishonour (countable and uncountable, plural dishonours)
- Shame or disgrace.
- You have brought dishonour upon the family.
- That which were a dishonour to God the Son, were a dishonour to God the holy Ghost.1645, G. Gillespie, Nihil Respondes, section 11
- Synonyms:
- humiliation, ignominy, unhonour, abasement, disgrace, embarrassment, hurt, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium
- Lack of honour or integrity.
- Synonyms:
- indecency, unhonour, unrighteousness, immorality, improbity, impropriety, undecency, ungodliness, unprobity, unpropriety
- Failure or refusal of the drawee or intended acceptor of a negotiable instrument, such as a bill of exchange or note, to accept it or, if it is accepted, to pay and retire it.
Verb
dishonour (third-person singular simple present dishonours, present participle dishonouring, simple past and past participle dishonoured)
- To bring disgrace upon someone or something; to shame.
- You have dishonoured the family.
- Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]1854, Robert Aitken, The teaching of the types, page 99
- To refuse to accept something, such as a cheque; to not honor.
- disworshipping and dishonouring God1684, Obadiah Walker, A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Epistles of St Paul
- To violate or rape.
- “My men, the schooner coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate. His character is known; he scuttles all the ships he boards, dishonours the women, and murders the crew.”1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash
dishonour meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
dishonour in Tamil
- shame or disgrace
- களங்கம் kaḷaṅkam, அவமானம் avamāṉam
dishonour in Urdu
- dishonour, insult, humiliation
- ذلت zillat
dishonour in Bengali
- shame or disgrace
- অসম্মান ośomman, জিল্লত jillot
dishonour in Telugu
- to bring disgrace upon someone or something
- అవమానించు avamāniñcu
More languagesFewer languages
- dishonour in Malayalam
- മാനക്കേട് mānakkēṭŭ
- dishonour in Kannada
- ಸಿಗ್ಗು, ನಾಚುಗೆ, ಒಚ್ಚಿ, ಕೆಟ್ಟಹೆಸರು
- dishonour in Sanskrit
- विमान vimāna
- dishonour in Persian
- ننگ nang
Synonyms of dishonour
- humiliation
- ignominy
- unhonour
- abasement
- disgrace
- embarrassment
- hurt
- mortification
- obloquy
- opprobrium
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- shame
- indecency
- unrighteousness
- immorality
- improbity
- impropriety
- ungodliness
- unprobity
- unpropriety
- unrightfulness
- unsaintliness
- unseemliness
- unuprightness
- unvirtuousness
- wickedness
- discomfit
- humiliate
- mortify
- abase
- abash
- bring low
- confuse
- confound
- debase
- degrade
- demean
- depress
- disconcert
- embarrass
- humble
Forms of dishonour
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dishonours |
| alternative US | dishonor |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | dishonours |
| present participle | dishonouring |
| past participle | dishonoured |
| past | dishonoured |
Origin of dishonour
From Old French deshonor, equivalent to dis- + honour.
Words formed from dishonour
Questions about dishonour
- What does dishonour mean?
- Dishonour means shame or disgrace.
- What is dishonour in Tamil?
- Dishonour in Tamil is களங்கம் (kaḷaṅkam), அவமானம் (avamāṉam). See Dishonour meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dishonour?
- Dishonour can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce dishonour?
- Dishonour is pronounced /dɪsˈɒnə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dishonour?
- The plural of dishonour is dishonours.
Words near dishonour in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dishonour (page history and authors); ذلت (Urdu) (page history and authors); dishonour (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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