meaning of ignominious
1. Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.
2. Deserving ignominy; despicable.
3. Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence.
4. 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"
Related Words
ignominious | ignominiously | ignominiousness |
