stigmanoun
uk/ˈstɪɡ.mə/us/ˈstɪɡ.mə/stigma noun (FEELING)
[ C usually singular, U ] a strong feeling of disapproval that most people in a society have about something, especially when this is unfair:
There is no longer any stigma to being divorced.
Being an unmarried mother no longer carries the social stigma that it used to.
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- dig
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- lashing
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- throw
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stigma noun (FLOWER PART)
[ C ] the top of the central female part of a flower, where pollen is received
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Plant reproduction
- anther
- asexual reproduction
- barren
- bear
- cross-pollination
- endosperm
- fruit
- germinate
- micropyle
- pollen
- pollinate
- propagate
- self-pollination
- sporangium
- spore
- stamen
- wind pollination
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Flowers - general words