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Definition: Opprobrium |
OpprobriumNoun1. State of disgrace resulting from public abuse. 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "opprobrium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Opprobrium \Op*pro"bri*um\, noun. [Latin expression, from ob (see Ob-) probrum reproach, disgrace.]. (references) |
Synonyms: OpprobriumSynonyms: infamy (n), obloquy (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: fame (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disrepute | Noun: disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor; disapprobation; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement, debasement; abjectness; Adjective: degradation, dedecoration; a long farewell to all my greatness; odium, obloquy, opprobrium, ignominy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Opprobrium |
| English words defined with "opprobrium": infamy ♦ Niding ♦ Opprobry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "opprobrium": Handkerchiefs ♦ Wagon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "opprobrium": Opprobry. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Opprobrium" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (disgrace, reproach). |
| "Opprobrium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Opprobrium" is used about 27 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% | 27 | 66,962 |
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 |
opprobrium | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "opprobrium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | turp (attaint, bashfulness, black eye, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie upon you, for shame, infamy, mortification, obloquy, pudency, reproach, shame, stain, stigma, taint, turpitude), përbuzje (contempt, despite, disdain, scorn, self-assumption), fyerje (affront, contumely, displeasure, flout, grievance, indignity, injury, insult, offence, resentment, umbrage, vituperation). (various references) | |
Arabic | سلوك مخز, خزي (contempt, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, odium, shame). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | срам (degradation, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, ignominy, reproach, scandal, shame), укори, хули (invective, obloquy), безчестие (dishonor, dishonour, foulness, infamy, obloquy), позор (attaint, contumely, degradation, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, odium, reproach, scandal, shame, stigma). (various references) | |
Farsi | ننگ (Dishonor(Ur), Infamy, Reproach, Scandal, Shame, Stain), ناسزاءی , زشتی (Homeliness, Inelegance, Obscenity, Odium), خفت (Contempt, Disgrace, Noose), رسواءی 2 (Calumny, Disgrace, Dishonor(Ur), Disrepute, Ignominy, Infamy, Odium, Reproach, Scandal). (various references) | |
French | opprobre. (various references) | |
German | Schande (disgrace, disgracefulness, dishonor, dishonour, disrepute, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, shame, shocker). (various references) | |
Greek | καταισχύνη, όνειδοσ (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, reproach, shame), ύβρισ (abuse, affront, contumely, indignity, insult, invective, vituperation), αίσχοσ (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, infamy, outrage, shame), ονειδισμόσ (insult). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עלבון (affront, humiliation, insult, offence, umbrage), כלימ" (affront, disgrace, insult, reproach, shame), ' אי (disgrace, disrepute, notoriety, obloquy, shame). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szidalmazás (fulmination), szemrehányás (blame, expostulation, reproach, tax), szégyen (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, disrepute, ignominy, obloquy, reproach, scandal, shame), gyalázat (dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, obloquy, odium, outrage, shame, slur, turpitude). (various references) | |
Indonesian | hinaan (insulting, offence). (various references) | |
Italian | obbrobrio (disgrace, eyesore, shame), disonore (disgrace, disgracefulness, dishonor, dishonour, disrepute, reproach, shame). (various references) | |
Manx | nearey [f] (confusedness, disgrace, embarrassment, ignominy, mortification, self-consciousness, shame, shamefulness), nearey (confusedness, disgrace, embarrassment, ignominy, mortification, mortified, self-consciousness, shame, shamefulness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | opprobriumay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | opróbrio (scandal, shame), vexame (grievance, humiliation, take-down, wound), vergonha (black eye, crying shame a, disgrace, indignity, mortification, obloquy, reproach, scandal, shame, stigma), ignomínia (shame), desonra ultrajante. (various references) | |
Romanian | oprobriu (contempt, scorn), dezavuare (disavowal, repudiation), desconsiderare (defiance, disdain, neglect). (various references) | |
Russian | посрамление, позор (attaint, disgrace, ignominy, infamy, reproach, scandal, shame, shamefulness, stigma, taint). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sramota (attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, infamy, outrage, shame), poruga (derision, jest, mockery, ridicule, scoff, taunt), beščašće (dishonor, dishonour). (various references) | |
Spanish | oprobio (disgrace, ignominy, infamy, odium, reproach, shame), ignominia (disgrace, disgracefulness, disrepute, ignominy, shame). (various references) | |
Swedish | skymf (affront, contumely, indignity, insult, libel, offence, offense, outrage). (various references) | |
Turkish | utanç (deception, disgrace, shame, shock), rezalet (disgrace, ignominy, indignity, infamousness, obloquy, outrage, outrageousness, ridiculous, rotten, scandal, scene, shambles, villainy), hakaret (affront, contempt, contumely, cuss word, defamation, epithet, hotfoot, indignity, insult, invective, outrage, revilement, slap, slap in the face, slight, slur, snub), aşağılama (abasement, contempt, contemptuousness, disparagement, humiliation, insolence, insult, mortification). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ганьба (blot, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, odium, reproach, shame, smirch, spot, stain), осоромлення, образа (abuse, affront, contumely, dishonor, dishonour, dudgeon, grievance, grouch, indignity, injury, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, outrage, resentment, snub, umbrage, wound), зганьблення, безчестя (contumely, ignominy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | điều sỉ nhục, điều nhục nhã (contumely, disgrace, dishonour). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "opprobrium": opprobriums. (additional references) | |
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"Opprobrium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: approbrium, oppobrium, opprobium, opprobrius, opprobruim, oprobrium. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "opprobrium" (pronounced uprō"brēum) |
| 5 | -b r ē u m | disequilibrium, equilibrium. |
| 4 | -r ē u m | aquarium, atrium, auditorium, bacterium, barium, moratorium, planetarium, crematorium, delirium, deuterium, emporium, Herbarium, honorarium, tellurium, thorium, yttrium. |
| 3 | -ē u m | alluvium, ammonium, axiom, beryllium, medium, millennium, minium, myocardium, nephridium, neptunium, niobium, nobelium, opium, osmium, palladium, pandemonium, paramecium, petroleum, Plasmodium, plutonium, podium, polonium, potassium, premium, presidium, promethium, protium, psyllium, radium, cadmium, calcium, cesium, chromium, colloquium, compendium, condominium, consortium, europium, fermium, gallium, geranium, gonium, gymnasium, hafnium, harmonium, helium, holmium, idiom, indium, iridium, lawrencium, linoleum, lithium, magnesium, requiem, rhodium, selenium, sodium, stadium, strontium, superpremium, symposium, tedium, thallium, titanium, tritium, uranium, vanadium, zirconium. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-m-o-o-p-p-r-r-u" | |
-5 letters: bromo, broom, burro, morro, opium, poori, primo, primp, prior, promo, rumor. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-m-o-o-p-p-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: opprobriums. | |
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