repute

see definition of repute

nounhonor
nounreputation
nounfame
verbbelieve

Antonyms for repute

celebrity

noun. fame, notoriety

character

noun. integrity

characters

noun. integrity

consequence

noun. person's status

credit

noun. reputation, status

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Middle French reputer (late 13c.) or directly from Latin reputare "to count over, reckon; think over" (see reputation). Related: Reputed; reputing.

Example Sentences for repute

With a few of his own kind he had the repute of one who said very good things.

Saunders was a bachelor of fifty and a misogynist by repute.

Tawell was executed, and the notoriety of the case brought the telegraph into repute.

Also figuratively: bld wde sprang (his repute spread afar), 18.

Peradventure they be gentlemen of repute, and might hit back.

Like Monsieur Manette, your father, the gentleman was of repute in Paris.

But a man of repute will desire to avoid doing what is ludicrous.

Far more important than any question of who this man was by repute was the other question of why he was there.

To many of them he was known either personally or by repute.

But for his repute as a duellist they would have picked a quarrel with the visitor there and then.