Ignominious

Definition: Ignominious

Ignominious

Adjective

1. (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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ignominious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Ignominious \Ig`no*min"i*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression ignominiosus: compare to the French expression ignominieux.]. (references)

Synonyms: Ignominious

Disrepute

Ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base; (dishonorable).

Improbity

Infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard.

Crosswords: Ignominious

Albanian

i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous), i përbuzshëm (contemptible, despicable, ignoble), poshtërues (derogatory, galling, humiliating, vituperative). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مذل (debasing, degrading, humiliating), ‏مخز (debasing, degrading, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, humiliating, infamous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, shameless), ‏شائن (abominate, black, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, hideous, infamous, inglorious, nefarious, outrageous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нечестен (cammed, crooked, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, dodgy, faithless, false, low down, screwy, twisty, unfair, wildcat), позорен (disgraceful, flagitious, ignoble, infamous, opprobrious, reproachful, scandalous, shameful), долен (abject, base, bottom, contemptible, currish, ignoble, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, low, lower, low-grade, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, rascal, ratty, reptile, rotten, scaly, scurvy, shady, under, unworthy, vile, villainous). (various references)

Chinese 

可耻 (Disgraceful, reproachful). (various references)

Czech

potupný (defamatory, degrading, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, infamous), ostudný (disgraceful, shameful), hanebný (deplorable, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, horrendous, ignoble, nasty, nefarious, scurvy, shameful, sordid, squalid, unspeakable, vile, villainous). (various references)

Farsi 

مفتضح (Infamous), موجب رسواءی , ننگ اور (Opprobrious), رسوا (Blatant, Infamous, Opprobrious). (various references)

Finnish

häpeällinen (disgraceful, infamous, shameful). (various references)

French

ignominieux, ignoble (ignoble), honteux. (various references)

German

unehrenhaft (dishonorable, dishonourable, ignoble, inglorious), schmachvoll (discreditable, disgraceful, humiliating), schmählich (humiliating, inglorious, shameful), schändlich (deplorable, disgraceful, disgracefully, disreputable, flagitious, flagitiously, harmful, harmfully, ignoble, infamous, infamously, nefarious, nefariously, opprobrious, rascally, scurvy, shameful, shamefully, shocking, villainously), entwürdigend (degrading, squalid). (various references)

Greek 

επονείδιστος, άτιμοσ (coward, dishonest, infamous, inglorious, knavish, rogue), αισχρόσ (bawdy, disgraceful, nefarious, obscene, outrageous, salacious, shameful, shocking, smutty, wicked), ατιμωτικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian

megalázó (degrading, humiliating, mortifying). (various references)

Italian

ignominioso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

惨敗 (crushing failure, ignominious defeat, overwhelming defeat, utterly beaten). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざんぱい (crushing failure, ignominious defeat, overwhelming defeat, utterly beaten), さんぱい (acidification, crushing failure, ignominious defeat, industrial waste, overwhelming defeat, utterly beaten, worship, worshipping three times). (various references)

Manx

scammyltagh (disreputable, infamous, reproachful, scandalous, shocking), neareydagh (ashamed, reserved, shameful), nearagh (disgraceful, dishonourable, disreputable, self-conscious). (various references)

Norwegian

vanærende (dishonourable), forsmedelig. (various references)

Pig Latin

ignominiousay.(various references)

Portuguese

infame (dastard, disgraceful, infamous, scandal, scandalous, shameful, villainous), ignominioso (infamous, scandal, shameful), vergonhoso (discreditable, disgraceful, disreputable, fie-fie, ill-spoken, infamous, inglorious, opprobrious, reproachful, scandal, scandalous, shameful, shy), desonroso (discreditable, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, ill-spoken). (various references)

Romanian

infam (infamous, low down, mean, meanly, nefarious, opprobrious, villainous), umilitor (degrading, humiliating, self-abasing), de origine modestã (ignoble, of low birth). (various references)

Russian 

недостойный (undignified, unworthy), постылый, позорный (discreditable, disgraceful, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, inglorious, scandal, shameful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sramotan (disgraceful, infamous, inglorious, obscene, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful). (various references)

Spanish

ignominioso (disgraceful, inglorious). (various references)

Swedish

skamlig (disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, ignoble, infamous, inglorious, shameful). (various references)

Thai

น่าอับอาย (infamous, inglorious). (various references)

Turkish

yüz kızartıcı (discreditable, infamous, inglorious, reproachful, shameful), rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, infamous, low down, outrageous, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, shameful, sinner, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), küçültücü (contemptuous, degrading, depreciatory, derogatory, detractive, humiliating, ignoble, pejorative), aşağılayıcı (contemptuous, disparaging, humiliating, ignoble, insolent, insulting, opprobrious, pejorative, scornful), aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, dirty, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, petty, rascally, reptilian, scabby, scurvy, slavish, snotty, sordid, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wicked, wormy). (various references)

Ukrainian

ганебний (detractive, disgraceful, dishonest, disreputable, ignoble, infamous, obloquious, opprobrious, reproachful, scandalous, shameful, stigmatic), недостойний (undeserving, unworthy), принизливий (degrading, depreciatory, derogatory, detractive, humiliating, pejorative). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xấu xa (cankerous, nameless, ugly, unholy, vicious), đê tiện (abject, contemptible, hangdog, ignoble, lousily, plebeian, scabbily, scabby, scaly, scurvy, servile, shabby, small), đáng khinh nhục nhã, ô nhục (disgraceful, dishonourable, infamous). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ignominious": ignominiously, ignominiousness, ignominiousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ignominious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: igmominious, ignaminious, ignomanious, ignominiosus, ignominius, ignominous, ignomminious, ignoninious, igominious, igonominious, iignominious, innominious. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: ionising, misunion, unionism.

-4 letters: gnomons, ioniums, mignons, minings, minions, mooning, mousing, nimious, noising, noosing, ominous.

-5 letters: gnomon, gonion, gonium, inions, ionium, isogon, mignon, mining, minion, mongos, mooing, mungos, musing, nosing, onions, simoon, unions, unison.

+2 letters: ignominiously.

+4 letters: ignominiousness, immunodiagnosis.

+5 letters: immunodiagnostic.