'Ignominious' definitions:
Definition of 'ignominious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(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" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]
Definition of 'Ignominious'
From: GCIDE
- Ignominious \Ig`no*min"i*ous\, a. [L. ignominiosus: cf. F. ignominieux.]
- 1. Marked with ignominy; incurring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful. [1913 Webster]
- Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain, Fled ignominious. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Deserving ignominy; despicable. [1913 Webster]
- One single, obscure, ignominious projector. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ignominious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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