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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INGLO'RIOUS, a. [L. inglorius; in and gloria.]
1. Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame or celebrity; as an inglorious life of ease.
2. Shameful; disgraceful. He charged his troops with inglorious flight.

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]
2: not bringing honor and glory; "some mute inglorious Milton here may rest" [ant: glorious]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin inglorius, from in- + gloria glory Date: 1573 1. shameful, ignominious <an inglorious defeat> 2. not glorious ; lacking fame or honor <made an inglorious comeback> • ingloriously adverb • ingloriousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 shameful; ignominious. 2 not famous. Derivatives: ingloriously adv. ingloriousness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inglorious In*glo"ri*ous, a. [L. inglorious; pref. in- not + gloria glory, fame: cf. F. inglorieux. See Glory.] 1. Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease. --Shak. My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life. --Dryden. Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. --Gray. 2. Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc. Inglorious shelter in an alien land. --J. Philips.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as inglorious, you mean that it is something to be ashamed of. He wouldn't have accepted such an inglorious outcome. ADJ: usu ADJ n • ingloriously If fighting worsens, the troops might be reinforced, or ingloriously withdrawn. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Obscure, mean, lowly, humble, unknown, undistinguished, nameless, unmarked, unnoted, unhonored. 2. Shameful, disgraceful, humiliating, scandalous, ignominious.

Moby Thesaurus

derogatory, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, ignoble, ignominious, ignotus, infamous, innocuous, least, little known, low, lowest, lowliest, lowly, mean, modest, nameless, no credit to, notorious, obscure, plain, poor, renownless, seamy, shabby, shady, shameful, shoddy, simple, small, sordid, teachable, uncelebrated, undistinguished, unfamed, unglorified, unheard-of, unhonored, unimportant, unknown, unnotable, unnoted, unnoticed, unpopular, unpraiseworthy, unpretentious, unremarked, unrenowned, unrespectable, unsavory, unsung