Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
an expression of respect;
- Example: "the Japanese use many honorifics"ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
conferring or showing honor or respect;
- Example: "honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Honorific \Hon`or*if"ic\, a. [See Honor, -fy, and -ic.]
Conferring honor; tending to honor. --London Spectator.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
honorific
adj 1: conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social
status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized
profession"
n 1: an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many
honorifics"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "honorific":
appellation, appellative, attentive, binomen, binomial name,
byname, byword, cap in hand, ceremonious, cognomen, cognominal,
courteous, cryptonym, deferential, denomination, designation,
diminutive, dutiful, empty title, epithet, epithetic, eponym,
euonym, formal, handle, honor, honorable, honorary, hypocoristic,
hyponym, in name only, label, moniker, name, namesake, nomen,
nomen nudum, nominal, nominative, proper name, proper noun, quasi,
regardful, respectful, scientific name, secret name, self-called,
self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, style, tag,
tautonym, title, titular, titulary, trinomen, trinomial name,
would-be