Unhonored

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not honored. not-comparable

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From un- + honored.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.