What are the opposite words for time-honoured?

Time-honoured is a word that describes something that is respected and valued because it has been around for a long time. There are several antonyms to this word that express the opposite meaning. The word "new" can be used to describe something that is modern, innovative, and recently introduced. Another antonym for time-honoured would be "unproven." This term implies that something is untested and therefore lacks the credibility and respect that a time-honoured object or practice has. "Inferior" can also be used as an antonym to describe something of lesser quality compared to a time-honoured standard. Overall, these antonyms seek to contrast the value, respect, and credibility of something new, unproven, or inferior.

What are the antonyms for Time-honoured?

• adj.

  • noun
  • dishonorable
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  • dishonourable
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  • disreputable
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Famous quotes with Time-honoured

• On (BBC 1) Patrick Lichfield and Sacha Distel helped herd the beef. Even further down-market, (BBC 1) was hosted by Max Bygraves, who tried the time-honoured gimmick of singing the finale at the start. 'And if you doan like our finish / You doan have to stay for the show.' Thanks. Click.

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• But the tyranny of custom, like all other tyrannies, when grown quite unbearable—for it is wonderful what people will endure-;had already sown the seeds of its own dissolution. Out of the hardship had grown the repining, and to repine at the exercise of an alleged right is soon to question its authority, and the first question asked shakes the whole ancient and time-honoured fabric of privilege.

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• Only a seaman realises to what great extent an entire ship reflects the personality and ability of one individual, her Commanding Officer. To a landsman, this is not understandable—and sometimes it is even difficult for us to comprehend—but it is so! A ship at sea is a different world in herself, and in consideration of the protracted and distant operations of the fleet units, the Navy must place great power, responsibility and trust in the hands of those leaders chosen for command. In each ship there is one man who, in the hour of emergency or peril at sea, can turn to no other man. There is one who alone is ultimately responsible for the safe navigation, engineering performance, accurate gunfire and morale of the ship. He is the Commanding Officer. He is the ship. This is the most difficult and demanding assignment in the Navy. There is not an instant during his tour as Commanding Officer that he can escape the grasp of command responsibility. His privileges, in view of his obligations, are almost ludicrously small; nevertheless, this is the spur which has given the Navy its great leaders. It is a duty which richly deserves the highest, time-honoured title of the seafaring world—Captain.

  Joseph Conrad
• The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions.

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