Synonyms for indignity
- noun
Most common
insult disgrace humiliation affront outrage disrespect dishonor US disparagement
All synonyms
Noun
humiliation, disgrace, abuse, affront, insult, outrage, disrespect, dishonor US, dishonour UK, reproach, disparagement, slight, offense US, offence UK, obloquy, contumely, opprobrium, vilification
Definitions
- n. 1
degradation, debasement or humiliation
The prisoners endured many indignities.
Related words
- Word family
- indign indignant indignation
Forms
- Plural
- indignities → humiliations, disgraces, abuses, affronts…
Example sentences
- insult An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
- disgrace What you did brought disgrace on the whole class.
- humiliation How do you put up with that kind of humiliation?
- affront The coup d'etat in Brazil is an affront to democracy.
- outrage The illegal dump in the park is a source of outrage.
- disrespect Sami didn't want to disrespect anybody's religion.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| indignity | rising | |
| insult | rising | |
| disgrace | steady | |
| humiliation | rising | |
| affront | rising | |
| outrage | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- abuse2
- 6 letters
- slight1, insult2
- 7 letters
- offense2, offence, outrage2, affront2, obloquy3
- 8 letters
- disgrace2, dishonor3, reproach2
- 9 letters
- dishonour, contumely
- 10 letters
- disrespect3, opprobrium4
- 11 letters
- humiliation5
- 12 letters
- vilification5
- 13 letters
- disparagement
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (abuse2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- indignité
- Italiano
- indegnità
- Deutsch
- Unwürdigkeit