About The Word Ignominious
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Ignominious
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What's The Definition Of Ignominious?
[adj] (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ignominious: black | disgraceful | dishonorable | dishonourable | inglorious | opprobrious | shameful Related Terms | Find terms related to Ignominious: aberrant | abnormal | abominable | atrocious | criminal | delinquent | derogatory | deviant | discreditable | disgraceful | dishonorable | disreputable | evil | hardly the thing | ignoble | illegal | improper | inappropriate | incorrect | indecorous | infamous | inglorious | not done | not the thing | notorious | off-base | off-color | out-of-line | sacrilegious | scandalous | seamy | shabby | shady | shameful | shameless | shoddy | sinful | sordid | terrible | undue | unfit | unfitting | unlawful | unpraiseworthy | unrespectable | unrighteous | unsavory | unseemly | unsuitable | wicked | wrong | wrongful See Also | Ignominious In Webster's Dictionary \Ig`no*min"i*ous\, a. [L. ignominiosus: cf. F.
ignominieux.]
1. Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace;
dishonorable; shameful.
Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain,
Fled ignominious. --Milton.
2. Deserving ignominy; despicable.
One single, obscure, ignominious projector. --Swift.
3. Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or
sentence. --Macaulay.
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