Ignominious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ignominious \Ig`no*min"i*ous\, a. [L. ignominiosus: cf. F.
     ignominieux.]
     1. Marked with ignominy; incurring public disgrace;
        dishonorable; shameful.
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              Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain,
              Fled ignominious.                     --Milton.
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     2. Deserving ignominy; despicable.
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              One single, obscure, ignominious projector. --Swift.
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     3. Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or
        sentence. --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ignominious
       adj : (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" [syn: {black},
              {disgraceful}, {inglorious}, {opprobrious}, {shameful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "ignominious":
     aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, criminal, delinquent,
     derogatory, deviant, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable,
     disreputable, evil, hardly the thing, ignoble, illegal, improper,
     inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, inglorious,
     not done, not the thing, notorious, off-base, off-color,
     out-of-line, sacrilegious, scandalous, seamy, shabby, shady,
     shameful, shameless, shoddy, sinful, sordid, terrible, undue,
     unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable,
     unrighteous, unsavory, unseemly, unsuitable, wicked, wrong,
     wrongful