ignominious

The word “ignominious” has 5 syllables: ig-no-min-i-ous

It's pronounced as /ˌɪɡnəˈmɪniəs/


What is synonym and antonym for ignominious?

In the thesaurus, “ignominious” has 73 synonyms and 51 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ignominious along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for ignominious

  • atrocious
  • bad
  • base
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • censurable
  • contemptible
  • corrupt
  • criminal
  • cruel
  • currish
  • debased
  • debauched
  • degenerate
  • depraved
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dirty
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • dishonorable
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • embarrassing
  • evil
  • execrable
  • foul
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • ignoble
  • immoral
  • infamous
  • inglorious
  • iniquitous
  • libertine
  • loose
  • louche
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-minded
  • mean
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • nasty
  • nefarious
  • notorious
  • opprobrious
  • paltry
  • perverted
  • reprehensible
  • reprobate
  • rotten
  • seamy
  • shady
  • shameful
  • shoddy
  • shy
  • sinful
  • snide
  • sordid
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
  • unrespectable
  • unrighteous
  • unsavory
  • unscrupulous
  • unworthy
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wicked
  • wretched
  • wrong

Antonyms for ignominious

  • approved
  • authorized
  • blameless
  • clean
  • commendable
  • correct
  • creditable
  • decent
  • decorous
  • endorsed
  • esteemed
  • ethical
  • excellent
  • exemplary
  • good
  • guiltless
  • high
  • high-minded
  • honest
  • honorable
  • incorruptible
  • indorsed
  • irreproachable
  • just
  • legal
  • licensed
  • lofty
  • moral
  • noble
  • permissible
  • permitted
  • prestigious
  • principled
  • proper
  • reputable
  • reputed
  • respectable
  • respected
  • right
  • right-minded
  • righteous
  • sanctioned
  • scrupulous
  • seemly
  • straight
  • uncorrupted
  • unerring
  • upright
  • upstanding
  • venerable
  • virtuous

Meanings of ignominious

  • adjective
    1. Marked by shame or disgrace.

Example Sentences

  • The team suffered an ignominious defeat in the championship game.
  • His ignominious behavior at the party embarrassed everyone who attended.
  • The company faced the ignominious consequence of bankruptcy due to financial mismanagement.
  • After years of service, the politician's career ended in an ignominious scandal.
  • The once-respected professor experienced an ignominious fall from grace after allegations of plagiarism surfaced.

On this page you'll find 124 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ignominious, such as: approved, atrocious, authorized, bad, base, blamable, blameless.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

base

  • abject
  • abominable
  • airbase
  • anchorage
  • assume
  • assumption
  • atrocious
  • attraction
  • authority
  • axis
  • backbone
  • bad
  • basement
  • basis
  • bastion
  • battlefront
  • beachhead
  • bed
  • bedrock
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bottom
  • brace
  • bridgehead
  • bulwark
  • buttress
  • camp
  • capital
  • censurable
  • center
  • central
  • cheap
  • chief constituent
  • coarse
  • command
  • command post
  • common
  • construct
  • contemptible
  • core
  • cornerstone
  • corrupt
  • cruel
  • currish
  • cynosure
  • debased
  • debauched
  • deep
  • degenerate
  • demure
  • depend
  • depot
  • depraved
  • derive
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dirty
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • dishonorable
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • dock
  • emplacement
  • epicenter
  • essence
  • essential
  • establish
  • evidence
  • evil
  • execrable
  • eye
  • fastness
  • fawning
  • field
  • focus
  • foot
  • foothold
  • footing
  • fortress
  • foul
  • found
  • foundation
  • framework
  • front
  • fundamental
  • garrison
  • ground
  • ground zero
  • groundwork
  • grovelling
  • hang
  • hangar
  • hangdog
  • happy hunting ground
  • harbor
  • headquarters
  • heart
  • hinge
  • hive
  • home
  • hot spot
  • hotbed
  • hub
  • humble
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • immoral
  • important part
  • indelicate
  • infrastructure
  • iniquitous
  • installation
  • justification
  • kernel
  • key
  • keystone
  • lamblike
  • loadstone
  • loathsome
  • locate
  • locus
  • lodestone
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-minded
  • lowly
  • magnet
  • mean
  • mecca
  • meek
  • menial
  • miscreant
  • modest
  • mount
  • nadir
  • nasty
  • navel
  • nerve center
  • nexus
  • nub
  • nucleus
  • offensive
  • omphalos
  • origin
  • paltry
  • pedestal
  • perverted
  • pith
  • pitiful
  • plant
  • playground
  • playland
  • plebeian
  • polestar
  • poor
  • port
  • post
  • postulate
  • predicate
  • premise
  • premiss
  • presume
  • presumption
  • presuppose
  • presupposition
  • primary element
  • principal
  • principle
  • prop
  • quintessence
  • rationale
  • reprehensible
  • rest
  • retiring
  • rock bottom
  • root
  • scandalous
  • seat
  • seating
  • servile
  • set up
  • settlement
  • shameful
  • sheepish
  • shoddy
  • shore
  • site
  • slavish
  • sleazy
  • snide
  • sordid
  • sorry
  • soul
  • source
  • squalid
  • staging area
  • staging ground
  • stand
  • starting point
  • station
  • stay
  • strip
  • stronghold
  • substratum
  • substructure
  • support
  • suppose
  • supposition
  • sycophant
  • sycophantic
  • terminal
  • theory
  • thesis
  • thick
  • toadyish
  • toehold
  • touchstone
  • trashy
  • ugly
  • unassuming
  • underpinning
  • unethical
  • unpretentious
  • unprincipled
  • unscrupulous
  • unworthy
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • warp
  • warp and woof
  • warrant
  • wicked
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

dirty

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abusive
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • barnyard
  • base
  • bawdy
  • bedraggled
  • befoul
  • befouled
  • begrime
  • begrimed
  • below the belt
  • bemire
  • bemired
  • besmirch
  • besmirched
  • besoil
  • black
  • blacken
  • blackened
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blotch
  • blowy
  • blue
  • blur
  • blustering
  • blustery
  • breezy
  • bribable
  • broad
  • censurable
  • chaotic
  • cheap
  • cheating
  • cloudy
  • cluttered
  • coarse
  • coarse-grained
  • coat
  • collied
  • colly
  • condemnable
  • confuse
  • confused
  • contaminate
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • corruptible
  • cowardly
  • craven
  • crock
  • crocked
  • crooked
  • cruddy
  • crude
  • cruel
  • crummy
  • currish
  • cutthroat
  • dastardly
  • daub
  • debase
  • debased
  • debasing
  • debauched
  • deceitful
  • defile
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • degraded
  • demoralized
  • deplorable
  • depraved
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dingy
  • disarrange
  • disarranged
  • disarray
  • disarrayed
  • discolor
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • dishevel
  • disheveled
  • dishevelled
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • dishonorably
  • disorder
  • disordered
  • disreputable
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • distain
  • distasteful
  • double-dealing
  • draggle
  • draggled
  • dreggy
  • dungy
  • dusty
  • earthy
  • encrust
  • evil
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • filthy
  • foggy
  • foul
  • fouled
  • fuliginous
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • gaum
  • germy
  • greasy
  • grime
  • grimy
  • gross
  • grotty
  • grubby
  • grungy
  • gunky
  • gusty
  • gutter
  • hack
  • hard-core
  • hateful
  • hazy
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ignobly
  • ignominious
  • illegal
  • illegally
  • immodest
  • immoral
  • immorally
  • impure
  • inclement
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • indelicate
  • infamous
  • iniquitous
  • insanitary
  • jumble
  • jumbled
  • kinky
  • lame
  • lascivious
  • lewd
  • littered
  • loathsome
  • locker-room
  • louche
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-minded
  • machiavellian
  • make dusty
  • make impure
  • mean
  • mercenary
  • mess
  • mess up
  • messed
  • messy
  • mire
  • miscreant
  • misty
  • muck
  • mucky
  • muddle
  • muddled
  • muddy
  • mung
  • murky
  • mussed
  • mussy
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nefarious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • offensive
  • overcast
  • paltry
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • pollute
  • polluted
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • purchasable
  • racy
  • rainy
  • ratty
  • raunchy
  • raw
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reprobate
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • ribald
  • rotten
  • rough
  • rumpled
  • salacious
  • salty
  • scabby
  • scatological
  • scruffy
  • scummy
  • scurrilous
  • scurvy
  • scuzzy
  • shabby
  • shady
  • shameful
  • shifty
  • sinful
  • skanky
  • slatternly
  • sleazy
  • slimy
  • sloppy
  • slovenly
  • smear
  • smirch
  • smoke
  • smudge
  • smudged
  • smutch
  • smutty
  • sneaking
  • sneaky
  • snide
  • snowy
  • soft
  • soft-core
  • soil
  • soiled
  • sooty
  • sordid
  • sorry
  • soupy
  • spatter
  • spattered
  • spoil
  • spot
  • spotted
  • squalid
  • squally
  • stag
  • stain
  • stained
  • stormy
  • straggly
  • suggestive
  • sullied
  • sully
  • sunless
  • sweat
  • taint
  • tainted
  • tar
  • tarnish
  • tempestuous
  • temptable
  • trashy
  • turbulent
  • unacceptable
  • unbecoming
  • unchaste
  • unchivalrous
  • unclean
  • uncleaned
  • uncleanly
  • underhanded
  • underhandedly
  • undesirable
  • undusted
  • unethical
  • unethically
  • unfair
  • ungentlemanly
  • unhygienic
  • unjust
  • unkempt
  • unlaundered
  • unmoral
  • unpleasant
  • unprincipled
  • unprintable
  • unrighteous
  • unsanitary
  • unscrupulous
  • unsightly
  • unsportsmanlike
  • unsterile
  • unsterilized
  • unswept
  • untidy
  • untruthful
  • unwanted
  • unwashed
  • unwelcome
  • unworthy
  • venal
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vitiated
  • vulgar
  • wanton
  • warped
  • wicked
  • windblown
  • windswept
  • wretched
  • wrong
  • x-rated
  • yucky

ignoble

  • abject
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • base
  • baseborn
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bourgeois
  • censurable
  • coarse
  • common
  • contemptible
  • corrupt
  • craven
  • cruel
  • currish
  • dastardly
  • debased
  • debauched
  • degenerate
  • degraded
  • depraved
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dirty
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • dishonorable
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • down-market
  • downscale
  • evil
  • execrable
  • foul
  • heinous
  • humble
  • ignominious
  • immoral
  • infamous
  • inferior
  • iniquitous
  • lewd
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-life
  • low-minded
  • lowborn
  • lower-class
  • lowly
  • lumpen
  • mean
  • menial
  • middle-class
  • miscreant
  • modest
  • nasty
  • ordinary
  • paltry
  • peasant
  • perverted
  • petty
  • plain
  • plebeian
  • poor
  • prole
  • proletarian
  • reprehensible
  • rotten
  • scurvy
  • servile
  • shabby
  • shameful
  • simple
  • snide
  • sordid
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
  • unscrupulous
  • unwashed
  • unworthy
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vulgar
  • wicked
  • working-class
  • wretched
  • wrong

illaudable

  • base
  • censurable
  • contemptible
  • deplorable
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dirty
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • dishonorable
  • disreputable
  • ignominious
  • infamous
  • lousy
  • low
  • mean
  • nasty
  • notorious
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • reprehensible
  • scabby
  • scandalous
  • scummy
  • scurvy
  • seamy
  • shady
  • shameful
  • shocking
  • sordid
  • sorry
  • unethical
  • unlikable
  • unsavory
  • unworthy
  • vile
  • worthless
  • wretched

lame

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abysmal
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • bang
  • base
  • bash
  • bastard
  • batter
  • beat
  • below par
  • belt
  • blamable
  • bludgeon
  • box
  • break
  • bruise
  • bruised
  • brutal
  • buffet
  • bum
  • bung up
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • censurable
  • cheap
  • cheesy
  • coarse
  • common
  • condemnable
  • contemptible
  • counterfeit
  • cowardly
  • crappy
  • craven
  • cripple
  • cruddy
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • cut-rate
  • damage
  • damnable
  • dastardly
  • defective
  • deficient
  • deplorable
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dirty
  • disable
  • disabled
  • disastrous
  • discreditable
  • disfigure
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • dishonorable
  • dismember
  • disreputable
  • dissatisfactory
  • dreadful
  • drub
  • egregious
  • execrable
  • fake
  • faltering
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • flabby
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • flimsy
  • flog
  • from hunger
  • game
  • gimpy
  • gnarly
  • gore
  • gross
  • grubby
  • halt
  • hammer
  • hamstring
  • harm
  • hateful
  • hit
  • hobble
  • hobbling
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • hurt
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • ill
  • impair
  • impaired
  • inadequate
  • incapacitate
  • ineffective
  • inefficient
  • inferior
  • injure
  • injured
  • insufficient
  • junky
  • kill
  • kneecap
  • lace
  • lacerate
  • lacking
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lash
  • lesser
  • lick
  • limping
  • loathsome
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • maim
  • mangle
  • maul
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • murder
  • mutilate
  • nasty
  • niggardly
  • odious
  • off
  • pained
  • paltry
  • paralyze
  • paste
  • pathetic
  • pelt
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • pommel
  • poor
  • pound
  • pummel
  • punch
  • punk
  • ratty
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • scabby
  • scanty
  • scar
  • scummy
  • scurrilous
  • scurvy
  • second-rate
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shoddy
  • short
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • slap
  • sleazy
  • smack
  • smash
  • sneaking
  • sock
  • sordid
  • sore
  • sorry
  • sour
  • spank
  • spare
  • squalid
  • stiff
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • swat
  • swipe
  • terrible
  • thin
  • thrash
  • thump
  • thwack
  • torment
  • torture
  • trashy
  • unacceptable
  • unconvincing
  • under par
  • unethical
  • unpersuasive
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unsatisfactory
  • unscrupulous
  • unspeakable
  • unsuitable
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wack
  • wallop
  • wanting
  • weak
  • whack
  • whip
  • wing
  • worthless
  • wound
  • wretched
  • wrong

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