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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IGNOMIN'IOUS, a. [L. ignominiosus. See Ignominy.]
1. Incurring disgrace; cowardly; of mean character.
Then with pale fear surprised,
Fled ignominious.
2. Very shameful; reproachful; dishonorable; infamous. To be hanged for a crime is ignominious. Whipping, cropping and branding are ignominious punishments.
3. Despicable; worthy of contempt; as an ignominious projector.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (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, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame ; dishonorable 2. deserving of shame or infamy ; despicable 3. humiliating, degrading <suffered an ignominious defeat> • ignominiously adverb • ignominiousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 causing or deserving ignominy. 2 humiliating. Derivatives: ignominiously adv. ignominiousness n. Etymology: ME f. F ignominieux or L ignominiosus

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ignominious 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe an experience or action as ignominious, you mean it is embarrassing because it shows a great lack of success. (FORMAL) ...their ignominious defeat... = humiliating ADJ • ignominiously Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing hundreds of lives. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Dishonorable, disgraceful, shameful, infamous, scandalous, disreputable, opprobrious, full of ignominy. 2. Deserving ignominy, despicable, contemptible, base, infamous.

Moby Thesaurus

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