Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ignominious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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