honorific
Syllables: hon·or·if·icUK/ˌɒnəˈɹɪfɪk//ˌɑːnəˈɹɪfɪk/
honorific noun: a person's title, such as "Mrs" or "Doctor".
Noun
honorific (plural honorifics)
Adjective
honorific (comparative more honorific, superlative most honorific)
- Showing or conferring honour and respect.
- According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one.1996, T. P. Wiseman, “The Minucii and Their Monument”, in Jerzy Linderski, editor, Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic, Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 59
- Based on or valuing honor
- In the honorific cultural process, individuals (especially men) are extremely sensitive to real or perceived insults, and […]2010, Orlando Patterson, “The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence”, in John R. Hall et al., editors, Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN...
honorific meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
honorific in Hindi
- title or term of respect
- सम्मानसूचक sammānsūcak
honorific in Tamil
- நன்மதிப்பு அடைமொழி
honorific in Urdu
- an honorific or polite form of address
- خواجہ xāja
honorific in Bengali
- সম্মানজনক, মর্যাদা প্রকাশকারী
More languagesFewer languages
- honorific in Punjabi
- ਚੌਧਰੀ caudhrī
- honorific in Pashto
- حضرت hazrát
- honorific in Vietnamese
- kính ngữ
Antonyms of honorific
Forms of honorific
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | honorifics |
| alternative form | honorifick |
| alternative form | honourific |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more honorific |
| superlative | most honorific |
Origin of honorific
From honor + -ific.
Words formed from honorific
Phrases with honorific
Words that rhyme with honorific
- specific
- prolific
- calorific
- colorific
- hieroglyphic
- scientific
- terrific
- -ific
- biospecific
- calcific
- dolorific
- febrific
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- interspecific
- morbific
- organific
- pacific
- signific
- soporific
- sudorific
- triglyphic
- trispecific
- unterrific
- vaporific
- acidific
- algific
- allospecific
- anaglyphic
- anticalcific
- antiprolific
- aspecific
- aurific
- bioscientific
- bispecific
- carbonific
- chylific
- classific
- coelanaglyphic
- conspecific
- cornific
- cospecific
- crapperific
- damnific
- deific
- diaglyphic
- ditriglyphic
- frigorific
- geoglyphic
- grandific
- hipsterific
- horrific
- humilific
- inspecific
- lactific
- lapidific
- lithoglyphic
- lucific
- lucrific
- mirific
- nanospecific
- omnific
Questions about honorific
- What does honorific mean?
- Honorific means a person's title, such as "Mrs" or "Doctor".
- What is honorific in Hindi?
- Honorific in Hindi is सम्मानसूचक (sammānsūcak). See Honorific meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is honorific?
- Honorific can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce honorific?
- Honorific is pronounced /ˌɒnəˈɹɪfɪk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of honorific?
- The plural of honorific is honorifics.
Words near honorific in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: honorific (page history and authors); honorific (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); خواجہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); Honorific (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਚੌਧਰੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); حضرت (Pashto) (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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