ignominious

C2

a. 可耻的, 不名誉的, 下流的

发音

UK /ˌɪɡ.nə(ʊ)ˈmɪ.ni.əs/
US /ɪɡ.nəˈmɪ.ni.əs/

词形变化

more ignominious 比较级 most ignominious 最高级

别名

ignominous

释义与例句

adj. C2
  1. 1.

    Especially of a person: deserving of disgrace or dishonour; contemptible, despicable.

  2. 2.

    Causing or marked by disgrace or dishonour; disgraceful, dishonourable; also (loosely), humiliating, shameful.

    The time when the pseudovirtuous men and women die a painful and ignominious death has yet to come.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 5

black shameful disgraceful inglorious opprobrious

近义相关 2

dishonorable dishonourable

词源

From Late Middle English ignominious (“disgraceful, shameful”), from Middle French ignominieux (modern French ignominieux), or from its etymon Latin ignōminiōsus (“disgraced; disgraceful, shameful, ignominious”), from ignōminia (“disgrace, dishonour, shame, ignominy”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Ignōminia is derived from ig- (variant of in- (prefix meaning not) + nōmen (“name; good name, reputation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”)) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). By surface analysis, ignominy + -ious (suffix forming adjectives from nouns denoting the presence of a quality in any degree, typically an abundance).

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