unhonour'd
unhonour'd is the obsolete form of unhonored.
Meaning of unhonored
Adjective
unhonored (not comparable)
- Not honored.
- Laboring slowly, unhonored and unpaid and bound toward an immaterial prize far more meaningful than “success” as New York parlance would have it, these writers have destiny for incentive — and perhaps the exemplars of bygone literary gods for inspiration.2009 May 3, “The Fictional Advance”, in New York Times
- Synonyms:
- unglorified, unreputed, unsung, fameless, gloriless, inglorious, nameless, nonfamous, obscure, renownless
Forms of unhonour'd
| comparative | more unhonour'd |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unhonour'd |
Origin of unhonour'd
From un- + honour'd.
Questions about unhonour'd
- What is unhonour'd the obsolete form of?
- Unhonour'd is the obsolete form of unhonored.
Words near unhonour'd in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhonour'd (page history and authors); unhonored (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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