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Synonyms for ignoble
ɪgˈnoʊ bəlig·no·ble
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Wiktionary
ignobleadjective
ignobleadjective
ignobleadjective
Not honorable.
Synonyms:
shameful, degenerate, mean, dishonorable, reproachful, base, disgraceful
English Synonyms and Antonyms
ignoble
Synonyms:
avaricious, close, covetous, greedy, illiberal, mean, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, stingyAntonyms:
bountiful, chivalrous, disinterested, free, free-handed, free-hearted, generous, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, open-handed, open-hearted
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Princeton's WordNet
ignobleadjective
completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose
"something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Antonyms:
noble, rarified, elevated, high-minded, magnanimous, idealistic, exalted, sublime, greathearted, lofty, noble-minded, ennobling, grand, dignifying, high-flown, rarefiedignoble, ungentle, untitledadjective
not of the nobility
"of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"
Antonyms:
noble, noble-minded, high-minded, exalted, dignifying, grand, idealistic, ennobling, rarefied, rarified, elevated, magnanimous, greathearted, high-flown, sublime, lofty
Dictionary of English Synonymes
ignobleadjective
Synonyms:
plebeian, vulgar, untitled, base-born, low-born, mean, lowignobleadjective
Synonyms:
worthless, insignificant, mean, contemptibleignobleadjective
Synonyms:
dishonorable, disgraceful, infamous, base
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List of paraphrases for "ignoble":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#735 | close | |
#988 | base | |
#1008 | mean | |
#6014 | untitled | |
#12155 | humble | |
#13331 | petty | |
#18694 | greedy | |
#27379 | vile | |
#29320 | degenerate | |
#29867 | shameful | |
#37657 | lowly | |
#45257 | disgraceful | |
#47706 | despicable | |
#49769 | stingy | |
#78514 | moun | |
#83872 | dishonorable | |
#85469 | parsimonious | |
#99196 | ignoble | |
#108194 | rapacious | |
#108664 | covetous | |
#113305 | miserly | |
#115125 | illiberal | |
#122439 | undignified | |
#131890 | avaricious | |
#191976 | reproachful | |
#226840 | niggardly | |
#308476 | plebian | |
#313943 | penurious |
How to use ignoble in a sentence?
Manu:
Let a man accept with confidence valuable knowledge even from a person of low degree, good instruction regarding duty even from a humble man, and a jewel of a wife even from an ignoble family.
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
No president in history has used this power to pardon himself – not Andrew Johnson, not Richard Nixon, not Bill Clinton. It would be a truly ignoble, historical moment for Donald Trump to use this type of power.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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