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(ɪgnəmɪniəs)
adjective
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.
Many thought that he was doomed to ignominious failure.
Synonyms: humiliating, disgraceful, shameful, sorry More Synonyms of ignominious
ignominiously adverb [ADVERB with verb]
Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing hundreds of lives.

ignominious in American English

(ˌɪgnəˈmɪniəs)
adjective
1. 
characterized by or bringing on ignominy; shameful; dishonorable; disgraceful
2. 
contemptible; despicable
3. 
degrading; humiliating
Derived forms
ignominiously (ˌignoˈminiously)
adverb
ignominiousness (ˌignoˈminiousness)
noun
Word origin
Fr ignominieux < L ignominiosus

Examples of 'ignominious' in a sentence
ignominious

Having to collect his bat as he walked off made for an ignominious exit.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The ignominious end does not mean he leaves no legacy.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Its life looks set for an ignominious end.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Both operations ended in ignominious withdrawal.
French, David The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000 (1990)
Yet somehow Washington salvaged a moral victory from these ignominious defeats.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
Because of how they finished, they were looked upon as ignominious failures.
Christianity Today (2000)
If no buyers emerge, it too could meet an ignominious end in the recycling yard.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
For a warrior prince, it was an ignominious end.
Jonathan Gregson BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty (2002)
More than a century of proud history will soon come to an ignominious end when these mutually owned lenders are subsumed into larger rivals.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It feels an ignominious end for two noble cars, clearly with miles of hard driving left in them.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The buyout is an ignominious end for a business that once employed 30,000 people andwas synonymous with doorstep deliveries of milk.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He has won six games in a row, most of them after playing so badly that his team seemed to be heading for ignominious defeat.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Four of the top 16 players made an ignominious exit from the Ladbrokes.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This ignominious defeat underlines the club's urgent need to sign a striker before the transfer window closes on Thursday.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
A tame and ignominious end to their defence of the World Cup.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The man who handed over the Ashes to England for the first time in a generation stood on the threshold of another ignominious defeat yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But he will also recall that his first Test match as captain proper ended in ignominious defeat in Jamaica and sympathy was in short supply then.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
(adjective) 
Many thought that he was doomed to ignominious failure.
Synonyms
humiliating
The ruling party has suffered a humiliating defeat.
disgraceful
I complained about his disgraceful behaviour.
shameful
It is a shameful state of affairs.
sorry
scandalous
a scandalous waste of money
abject
an abject traitor
despicable
He said it was a despicable crime.
mortifying
undignified
disreputable
the noisiest and most disreputable bars
dishonourable
He insisted he had done nothing dishonourable.
inglorious
He wouldn't have accepted such an inglorious outcome.
discreditable
She had been suspended from her job for discreditable behaviour.
indecorous
Opposites
worthy
,
honourable
,
reputable
,
creditable

Additional synonyms

in the sense of abject
an abject traitor
Synonyms
despicable,
base,
degraded,
worthless,
vile,
sordid,
debased,
reprehensible,
ignominious,
contemptible,
dishonourable,
ignoble,
detestable,
scungy (Australian, New Zealand)
in the sense of despicable
Definition
deserving contempt
He said it was a despicable crime.
Synonyms
contemptible,
mean,
low,
base,
cheap (informal),
infamous,
degrading,
worthless,
disgraceful,
shameful,
vile,
sordid,
pitiful,
abject,
hateful,
reprehensible,
ignominious,
disreputable,
wretched,
scurvy (old-fashioned),
detestable,
scungy (Australian, New Zealand),
beyond contempt
in the sense of discreditable
She had been suspended from her job for discreditable behaviour.
Synonyms
disgraceful,
shameful,
improper,
scandalous,
humiliating,
infamous,
degrading,
unworthy,
reprehensible,
ignominious,
unprincipled,
dishonourable,
blameworthy

Nearby words of
ignominious

  • ignis fatuus
  • ignite
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • ignominy
  • ignoramus
  • ignorance

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