ignoble

Meanings

Adjective

• completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; ; - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • "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"

Adjective Satellite

• not of the nobility
  • "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"

Adj

• Not noble; plebeian; common.
• Not honorable; base.
• Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.
• Of an element, dangerously reactive.

Verb

• To make ignoble; to bring low.

Synonyms

base, common, degenerate, disgraceful, low-minded, mean, plebeian, reproachful, shameful, ungentle, untitled, vile, vulgar

Antonyms

honorable, noble

Anagrams of ignoble