Synonyms for ignominious
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Inglorious — especially of a person, deserving of disgrace or dishonour; contemptible, despicable
inglorious, shameful, disgraceful, dishonorable US, dishonourable UK, ignoble, contemptible, despicable, scandalous, disreputable, abject, infamous, pitiful, sordid, low, vile, shabby, dirty, base, mean, black, discreditable, beggarly
Definitions
- adj. 1
Especially of a person: deserving of disgrace or dishonour; contemptible, despicable.
Related words
- Word family
- ignominiously ignominiousness ignominy
Example sentences
- shameful The love that I suffer from is a shameful disease.
- disgraceful They abandoned us in the most disgraceful manner.
- inglorious Only miserable and inglorious death awaits you here.
- ignoble Jealousy is, to me, the most ignoble human feeling there is.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| ignominious | steady | |
| shameful | rising | |
| disgraceful | steady | |
| inglorious | steady | |
| ignoble | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- low1
- 4 letters
- mean1, base1, vile1
- 5 letters
- black1, dirty2
- 6 letters
- shabby2, abject2, sordid2
- 7 letters
- pitiful3, ignoble3
- 8 letters
- infamous3, shameful2, beggarly
- 10 letters
- despicable4, scandalous3, inglorious4
- 11 letters
- disgraceful3
- 12 letters
- dishonorable5, contemptible4, disreputable5
- 13 letters
- dishonourable, discreditable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dirty2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- ignominieux
- Italiano
- ignominioso
- Deutsch
- schändlich
- Català
- ignominiós