ignominious
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; - Rachel Carson
- "an ignominious retreat"
Adj
- Marked by great disgrace, dishonour, humiliation, or shame; disgraceful, shameful.
Origin / Etymology
From French or Old French ignominieux, from Latin ignōminiōsus (“disgraceful”), from ignōminia (“loss of a good name, ignominy”), from ig- (“not”) + nomen (“name”) (prefix assimilated form of in-). By surface analysis, ignominy + -ious.
Synonyms
abject, base, beggarly, black, blameworthy, carrion, cheap, contemptible, cringing, dedecorous, degraded, deridable, derisible, despicable, despisable, dirty, discreditable, disdainable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, execrable, groveling, ignoble, ignominious, inglorious, lame, laughable, loathsome, low, ludicrous, mean, mean-spirited, miserable, obscene, opprobrious, outrageous, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, plebeian, putrid, reprehensible, reptile, reptilian, reptitious, ridiculous, risible, roynish, scald, scornworthy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, slavish, sleazy, slimy, sordid, sorry, trashy, ugly, uncommendable, uncool, unmentionable, unsophisticated, unwashed, unworthy, vile, vulgar, weak, worthless, wretched
Scrabble Score: 14
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