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Definition: Indignity |
IndignityNoun1. An affront to one's dignity or self-esteem. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "indignity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Etymology: Indignity \In*dig"ni*ty\, noun; plural Indignities. [Latin indignitas: compare to French indignit['e]. See Indign.]. (references) |
Synonym: IndignitySynonym: Disparagement. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disrespect | Vilipendency, vilification, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy; practical joking; scurrility, scoffing, sibilance, hissing, sibilation; irrision; derision; mockery; irony; (ridicule); sarcasm. |
Resentment | Affront, provocation, offense; indignity; (insult); grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli; ill turn, outrage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Indignity |
| English words defined with "indignity": Disglorify, Dishonorer ♦ Indignify, Indignities ♦ Overlead ♦ Weapons of offense. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "indignity": Lie Direct. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "indignity": Overlead. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Michael Rosenberg.) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Maggie Kuhn | The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The minister of finance in his opening speech alluded to the measures which had been adopted to resent the supposed indignity, and recommended the execution of the treaty as a measure required by the honor and justice of France. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Indignity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indignity" is used about 101 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 101 | 32,488 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
indignity | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "indignity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përulje (cringe, debasement, humility, kotow, kowtow, mortification, subservience), ofendim (grievance, injury, insult, offence, wrong), keqtrajtim (disservice, ill use, ill-treatment, maltreatment, mistreatment, persecution, punishment), fyerje (affront, contumely, displeasure, flout, grievance, injury, insult, offence, opprobrium, resentment, umbrage, vituperation). (various references) | |
Arabic | معاملة مهينة, إهانة (affront, crinkle, degradation, despite, dishonor, dishonour, flout, injury, insolence, insult, mortification, offence, reflection, reflexion, slap, slur, tawdriness, umbrage), إذلال (abasement, humiliation, prostration). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | унижение (abjection, come down, debasement, derogation, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, prostration), обида (affront, cut, dishonor, dishonour, hurt, injury, insult, offence, offense, outrage, resentment, slight, slur, umbrage, wound, wrong). (various references) | |
Chinese | 侮辱 (Affronted, Affronting, Debase, Debased, Debasing, Indignities, insult). (various references) | |
Czech | potupa (affront, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, outrage), ponížení (abasement, abjection, degradation, humiliation, mortification, prostration), nedùstojnost. (various references) | |
Farsi | هتک ابرو. (various references) | |
French | indignité, outrage (insult), mauvais traitement. (various references) | |
German | demütigung (abasement, humiliation, mortification), Beleidigung (abuse, affront, defamation, insult, libel, offence, offense, scathe, slander, slur). (various references) | |
Greek | κακομεταχείριση (maltreatment, mistreatment), ύβρισ (abuse, affront, contumely, insult, invective, opprobrium, vituperation), προσβολή (affront, assault, attack, blow, derogation, insult, invective, mortification, offence, outrage, slur, stroke, umbrage). (various references) | |
Hebrew | השפלה (abjection, degradation, dumiliation, humiliation, mortification, slumping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megaláztatás, méltatlanság (wrong). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penghinaan (abjection, blasphemy, disdain, disparagement, humiliation, sebasement). (various references) | |
Italian | indegnità (unworthiness, worthlessness), trattamento indegno, affronto (affront, cut, insult, offence, offense, scathe, slight, snub). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | indignityay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insulto (abuse, affront, contumely, injury, insult, lash, scurrility, taunt, vituperation), injria (harm, hurt, injury), indignidade (degradation, turpitude), vergonha (black eye, crying shame a, disgrace, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, stigma), afronta (affront, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, insult, outrage, snub, take-down, wrong). (various references) | |
Romanian | ofensã (cut, humiliation, injury, mortification, offence, sin, slap, slur, wound), mârşãvie (dirtiness, infamy, lowness, meanness). (various references) | |
Russian | унижение (abaissement, abasement, debasement, degradation, derogation, humilliation, mortification), оскорбление (abuse, affront, contumely, injury, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, opprobrium, outrage, wound). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uvreda (affront, assault, contumely, dudgeon, grievance, hurt, insult, knock, offence, offense, outrage, pique, umbrage, wound), poniženje (abasement, degradation, humiliation, humility, mortification). (various references) | |
Spanish | indignidad (outrage). (various references) | |
Swedish | kränkning (infraction, infringement, injury, offence, offense, outrage, violation). (various references) | |
Turkish | saygısızlık (defiance, discourtesy, disrespect, flippancy, impertinence, impiety, impudence, inconsiderateness, insolence, irreverence, liberty, sauciness, slight), rezalet (disgrace, ignominy, infamousness, obloquy, opprobrium, outrage, outrageousness, ridiculous, rotten, scandal, scene, shambles, villainy), hakaret (affront, contempt, contumely, cuss word, defamation, epithet, hotfoot, insult, invective, opprobrium, outrage, revilement, slap, slap in the face, slight, slur, snub), gurur kırıcı davranış. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | образа (abuse, affront, contumely, dishonor, dishonour, dudgeon, grievance, grouch, injury, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, opprobrium, outrage, resentment, snub, umbrage, wound), зневага (contempt, disdain, disparagement, neglect, raspberry, spurn). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự sỉ nhục (abuse, abusiveness, affront), sự làm nhục (abasement, humiliation, snub, snubbing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Indignity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indignat, indignatly, indignigy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "indignity" (pronounced i'ndi"gnutē) |
| 7 | -d i" g n u t ē | dignity. |
| 4 | -n u t ē | affinity, alkalinity, amenity, community, disunity, divinity, eternity, femininity, fraternity, humanity, immunity, impunity, indemnity, infinity, inhumanity, insanity, masculinity, maternity, modernity, obscenity, opportunity, paternity, profanity, salinity, sanity, serenity, solemnity, Trinity, unity, vanity, vicinity, virginity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, ambiguity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, diversity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indestructibility, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, materiality, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, sanctity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-i-n-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: inditing. | |
-2 letters: dignity, dinting, tidying. | |
-3 letters: dining, indign, niding, tiding, tining, tyning. | |
-4 letters: digit, dingy, dying, ginny, nitid, tinny, tying. | |
-5 letters: ding, dint, inti, nidi, tidy, ting, tiny, tyin. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-i-n-n-t-y" | |
+2 letters: identifying. | |
+3 letters: denitrifying. | |
+4 letters: reidentifying. | |
+5 letters: disquantitying, intimidatingly, misidentifying. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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