Ignominy

//ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation. countable, uncountable

    "But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen."

  2. 2
    a state of dishonor wordnet

Synonyms

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shameabominationatrocitychagrincontemptdegradation

Example

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"Both cars suffered the ignominy of finishing a lap down."

Etymology

Borrowed from French ignominie, from Latin ignōminia, from ig- (“not”) + nomen (“name”) (prefix assimilated form of in-).

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