DISHONORABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dishonorableness mean? 

• DISHONORABLENESS (noun)
  The noun DISHONORABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of not deserving honor or respect

  Familiarity information: DISHONORABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISHONORABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of not deserving honor or respect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dishonorableness; dishonourableness

Hypernyms ("dishonorableness" is a kind of...):

unrighteousness (failure to adhere to moral principles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dishonorableness"):

ignobility; ignobleness (the quality of being ignoble)

sleaziness (morally dishonorable)

disreputability; disreputableness; unrespectability (dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation)

Antonym:

honorableness (the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor)

Derivation:

dishonorable (deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive)

dishonorable (lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor)