ignominious
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.
Examples
- The time when the pseudovirtuous men and women die a painful and ignominious death has yet to come.
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
black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful, abject, base, beggarly, blameworthy, carrion, cheap, contemptible, cringing, dedecorous, degraded, deridable, derisible, despicable, despisable, dirty, discreditable, disdainable, dishonorable, disreputable, execrable, groveling, ignoble, ignominious, lame, laughable, loathsome, low, ludicrous, mean, mean-spirited, miserable, obscene, outrageous, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, plebeian, putrid, reprehensible, reptile, reptilian, reptitious, ridiculous, risible, roynish, scald, scornworthy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, 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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