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Definition: Inglorious |
IngloriousAdjective1. (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". 2. Not bringing honor and glory; "some mute inglorious Milton here may rest". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inglorious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Etymology: Inglorious \In*glo"ri*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression inglorious; prefix in- not gloria glory, fame: compare to the French expression inglorieux. See Glory.]. (references) |
Synonyms: IngloriousSynonyms: black (adj), disgraceful (adj), dishonorable (adj), ignominious (adj), opprobrious (adj), shameful (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: glorious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disrepute | Verb: be inglorious; Adjective: incur disgrace; Noun: have a bad name, earn a bad name; put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself. |
Inglorious; nameless, renownless; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted, unhonored, unglorified. | |
Improbity | Undignified, indign; unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting; derogatory, degrading; infra dignitatem; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome; recreant, inglorious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inglorious |
| English words defined with "inglorious": death, destruction, dishonorable ♦ end ♦ Ingloriousness ♦ last ♦ Unglorious. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inglorious": Maro ♦ Perseverance. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "inglorious": Unglorious. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. "Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl. "Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is -- where?" Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peace, The goal and the rival forgotten alike, And the long fatigue of the needless hike. His spirit a-squat in the grass and the dew Of the dogless Land beyond the Stew, He sleeps, like a saint in a holy place, A winner of all that is good in a race. Sukker Uffro |
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| "Inglorious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inglorious" is used about 32 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "inglorious": come to a inglorious end. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
inglorious | 9 |
inglorious bastard | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inglorious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous), i palavdishëm, i padëgjuar (quiet, unheard, unprecedented), pa famë. (various references) | |
Arabic | مغمور (immersed, nameless, obscure, sunken), معيب (defective, dishonorable, dishonourable, infamous), شائن (abominate, black, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, hideous, ignominious, infamous, nefarious, outrageous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | срамен (infamous, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful, vile), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), малко известен (obscure, out of the way), безславен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 不光彩. (various references) | |
Czech | neslavný. (various references) | |
Dutch | roemloos. (various references) | |
Farsi | ننگین (Infamous, Shameful), گمنام (Obscure, Scrubby, Unknown), افتضاح اور (Gamy), شرم اور (Gross, Indecent, Petulant, Shameful). (various references) | |
French | infamant, peu glorieux, honteux, déshonorant. (various references) | |
German | unrühmlich. (various references) | |
Greek | άτιμοσ (coward, dishonest, ignominious, infamous, knavish, rogue), άδοξοσ (renowneless). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחפיר (disgraceful, flagrant, grievous, ignominius, shameful), מביש (degrading, disgraceful, flagrant, ignominius, scandalous, shameful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | dicstelen. (various references) | |
Italian | inglorioso. (various references) | |
Korean | 불명예스럽은. (various references) | |
Manx | neughloyroil. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingloriousay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inglorioso, inglrio, vergonhoso (shameful), obscuro (obscure). (various references) | |
Romanian | ruşinos (shy), lipsit de glorie, dezonorant (disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonoring, dishonourable, dishonouring, disreputable, infamous). (various references) | |
Russian | бесславный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sramotan (disgraceful, ignominious, infamous, obscene, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful), neslavan (unnoted). (various references) | |
Spanish | ignominioso (ignominious), que no tiene fama (infamous), desconocido (unknown). (various references) | |
Swedish | inte ärofull, vanhedrande (disreputable), skamlig (disgraceful, ignominious, shameful), okänd (unknown), obemärkt (unobserved). (various references) | |
Thai | น่าอับอาย (ignominious, infamous). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüz kızartıcı (discreditable, ignominious, infamous, reproachful, shameful), utanç verici (disgraceful, infamous, opprobrious, shameful, sinful), tanınmamış (unheard of, unnoted, unrecognized, unsung), belirsiz (ambiguous, backhanded, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dubious, dusty, equivocal, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, in the balance, indefinable, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, indistinct, lax, misty, obscure, off color, off colour, precarious, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undetermined, unsettled, vague), şerefsiz (dishonest, dishonorable, dishonored, dishonourable, undignified), ayıp (attaint, blot, blotch, brand, contempt, disgrace, disgraceful, dishonor, dishonour, failing, indecorous, indecorum, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame, shame on you, shameful, slur, spot, unmannerly, what a shame). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | невідомий (fameless, nameless, noteless, obscure, unbeknown, unheard, unknown), безславний (disreputable, infamous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không vinh quang; nhục nhã không có tên tuổi, không có tiếng tăm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inglorius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inglorious": ingloriously, ingloriousness, ingloriousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "inglorious": vainglorious. (additional references) | |
Words containing "inglorious": vaingloriously, vaingloriousness, vaingloriousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inglorious" (pronounced i'nglô"rēus) |
| 7 | -g l ô" r ē u s | glorious. |
| 5 | -ô" r ē u s | laborious, meritorious, notorious, Sartorius, victorious. |
| 4 | -r ē u s | curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, furious, gregarious, hilarious, illustrious, imperious, industrious, injurious, lugubrious, mysterious, nefarious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, serious, spurious, various, vicarious, vitreous. |
| 3 | -ē u s | acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, gaseous, harmonious, hideous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, impervious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, lascivious, luxurious, melodious, miscellaneous, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, percutaneous, previous, punctilious, radius, sanctimonious, simultaneous, spontaneous, studious, supercilious, tedious, unceremonious. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: glorious, ligroins. | |
-3 letters: girosol, ligroin, logions, loosing, louring, lousing, origins, roiling, roosing, rosinol, rousing, rulings, signior, signori, siloing, sirloin, soiling, soloing, souring. | |
-4 letters: girons, gluons, grison, groins, guiros, igloos, insoul, isling, isogon, isolog, logion, looing, losing, lungis, luring, oiling, origin, orison, riling, rising, rosing, ruling, sigloi, signor, siring, sluing, soling, solion, soring, unrigs. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: ingloriously, nonreligious, vainglorious. | |
+4 letters: ingloriousness, neurobiologies, neurobiologist, vaingloriously. | |
+5 letters: hemoglobinurias, neurobiologists, revolutionising. | |
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