Found 2 items, similar to ignominious.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ignominious 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” [syn: black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Ignominious Ignominious \Ig`no*min"i*ous\, a. [L. ignominiosus: cf. F. ignominieux.] 1. Marked with ignominy; incurring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful. [1913 Webster] Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain, Fled ignominious. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Deserving ignominy; despicable. [1913 Webster] One single, obscure, ignominious projector. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 3. Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]