Definitions for: 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"

Webster (1913) Definition: Ig`no*min"i*ous, a. [L. ignominiosus: cf. F.
ignominieux.]
1. Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace;
dishonorable; shameful.

Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain,
Fled ignominious. --Milton.

2. Deserving ignominy; despicable.

One single, obscure, ignominious projector. --Swift.

3. Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or
sentence. --Macaulay.

Synonyms: black, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful

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