'Infamy' definitions:
Definition of 'infamy'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state of extreme dishonor; "a date which will live in infamy"- F.D.Roosevelt; "the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city" [syn: infamy, opprobrium] [ant: celebrity, fame, renown]
noun
Evil fame or public reputation [ant: fame]
Definition of 'Infamy'
From: GCIDE
- Infamy \In"fa*my\, n.; pl. Infamies. [L. infamia, fr. infamis infamous; pref. in- not + fama fame: cf. F. infamie. See Fame.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity. [1913 Webster]
- The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness. [1913 Webster]
- Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 -- a day which will live in infamy, . . . --Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Synonyms of 'infamy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abhorrence,
- abomination,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- depluming,
- desecration,
- detestation,
- discredit,
- disesteem,
- disgrace,
- disgracefulness,
- dishonor,
- displuming,
- disrepute,
- egregiousness,
- error,
- evil,
- hatred,
- heinousness,
- ignobility,
- ignominiousness,
- ignominy,
- ill fame,
- ill repute,
- infamousness,
- ingloriousness,
- iniquity,
- knavery,
- loathsomeness,
- loss of honor,
- monstrosity,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- obliquity,
- obloquy,
- odium,
- opprobrium,
- outrage,
- peccancy,
- pity,
- profanation,
- reprobacy,
- revulsion,
- sacrilege,
- scandal,
- shame,
- shamefulness,
- sin,
- stigma,
- terrible thing,
- vileness,
- villainy,
- violation,
- wickedness,
- wrong