Notorious

3 definitions found

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

  Notorious \No*to"ri*ous\, a. [L. notorius pointing out, making
     known, fr. noscere, notum, to known: cf. F. notoire. See
     {Know}.]
     Generally known and talked of by the public; universally
     believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; --
     usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a


     notorious crime or vice.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Your goodness,
           Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; celebrated;
          noted; famous; renowned.
          [1913 Webster] -- {No*to"ri*ous*ly}, adv. --
          {No*to"ri*ous*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  notorious
       adj : having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious
             gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for
             vice" [syn: {ill-famed}, {infamous}]

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

  164 Moby Thesaurus words for "notorious":
     abominable, acclaimed, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly,
     beneath contempt, blackguardly, blameworthy, blatant, bold, brazen,
     brazenfaced, brutal, celebrated, common, commonly known,
     commonplace, conspicuous, contemptible, current, degraded,
     deplorable, derogatory, despicable, detestable, dire,
     discreditable, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable,
     distinguished, dreadful, egregious, embarrassing, enormous,
     exhibitionistic, fabled, famed, familiar, famous, far-famed,
     far-heard, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forward, foul, fulsome,
     glaring, grievous, gross, hackneyed, hanging out, hateful, heinous,
     honored, horrible, horrid, household, ignoble, ignominious,
     immodest, in relief, in the foreground, infamous, inglorious,
     knavish, lamentable, leading, legendary, loathsome, lousy, marked,
     memorable, monstrous, much acclaimed, mythical, nasty, naughty,
     nefarious, noisome, notable, noted, noticeable, obnoxious,
     obtrusive, odious, of mark, of note, offensive, opprobrious,
     ostensible, outrageous, outstanding, pitiable, pitiful,
     platitudinous, popular, prominent, pronounced, proverbial, public,
     rank, rascally, recreant, regrettable, renowned, reprehensible,
     reprobate, repulsive, roguish, rotten, sad, salient, scampish,
     scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly, scurvy, seamy, shabby, shady,
     shameful, shameless, shaming, shocking, shoddy, sordid, squalid,
     staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, talked-about,
     talked-of, terrible, too bad, trite, truistic, unabashed,
     unashamed, unblushing, unclean, unembarrassed,
     universally admitted, universally recognized, unmodest,
     unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, vile, villainous,
     well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood,
     widely known, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched