Both cars suffered the ignominy of finishing a lap down.
Source: tatoeba (8930114)
Ignominy
//ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni//
Synonyms for "ignominy" (42 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (21)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
49 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀτιμία noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Bulgarian
2 entries- позор noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- срам noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Catalan
1 entries- ignomínia noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Danish
3 entries- skam noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- vanry noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- vanære noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Dutch
1 entries- schaamte noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Finnish
2 entries- häpeä noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- häpeällinen teko noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
French
1 entries- ignominie noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
German
4 entries- Schande noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- Schmach noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- Schändlichkeit noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- Unaussprechlichkeit noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Hungarian
1 entries- gyalázat noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Italian
2 entries- ignominia noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- infamia noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Latin
1 entries- ignominia noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Norwegian
3 entries- skam noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- skjensel noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- vanære noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- skam noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- vanære noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- رذالت noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schaund noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Polish
4 entries- dyshonor noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- hańba noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- podłość noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- sromota noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Portuguese
2 entries- desonra noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- ignomínia noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Romanian
1 entries- ignominie noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Russian
3 entries- бесче́стие noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- позо́р noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- срам noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Spanish
1 entries- ignominia noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Swedish
4 entries- nesa noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- skam noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- skymf noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- smälek noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Turkish
4 entries- kepazelik noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- rezalet noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- rezillik noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- zillet noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Ukrainian
2 entries- безче́стя noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
- ганьба́ noun (great dishonor, shame, or humiliation)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
Bradly came out from hiding with a dyspeptic grunt, too depressed by ignominy to send a curse after the old woman.
Source: wiktionary
Calvin: Our great plan backfired and I'm the one who got soaked! Oh, the shame! The ignominy!
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 7 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.