Ignoble
[ɪg'nəʊb(ə)l] or [ɪɡ'nobl]
Definition
(adj.) 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. .
(adj.) not of the nobility; 'of ignoble (or ungentle) birth'; 'untitled civilians' .
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Definition
(a.) Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
(a.) Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.
(a.) Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.
(v. t.) To make ignoble.
Editor: Ricky
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Plebeian, vulgar, untitled, base-born, low-born, mean, low.[2]. Worthless, insignificant, mean, contemptible.[3]. Dishonorable, disgraceful, infamous, base.
Typist: Nelly
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Moun, base, dishonorable, humble, plebian, lowly
ANT:Honorable, noble, eminent, exalted, lordly, grand, notable, illustrious
Typist: Marvin
Definition
adj. of low birth: mean or worthless: dishonourable.—v.i. to degrade.—ns. Ignobil′ity Ignō′bleness.—adv. Ignō′bly.
Checker: Norris
Examples
- That way of speaking is ignoble, Anselmo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Is not the noble that which subjects the beast to the man, or rather to the god in man; and the ignoble that which subjects the man to the beast? Plato. The Republic.
- Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to this--to a mean prison and a long, ignoble bondage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He is not ugly, Shirley, pleaded Caroline; he is not ignoble. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Is not the noble that which subjects the beast to the man, or rather to the God in man; the ignoble, that which subjects the man to the beast? Plato. The Republic.
- The fire was not dissipated yet, and she thought it was ignoble in her husband not to apologize to her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Vitruvius was far from sharing the view of Archimedes that art which was connected with the satisfaction of daily needs was necessarily ignoble and vulgar. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Shall Hellas, Mother of the West, In servitude ignoble rest? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He went so far as to say that every kind of art is ignoble i f connected with daily needs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is ignoble—yes; but it is pleasant. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Is that not rather ignoble? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is ignoble. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It would be ignoble of me not to participate in this action because of the accident of this message. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Mr. Guppy is engaged in collecting the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty from the wall and depositing those works of art in their old ignoble band-box. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the canton of Berne it is so high as a sixth part of the price of all noble fiefs, and a tenth part of that of all ignoble ones. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Nay, he said, the reverse of ignoble. Plato. The Republic.
- A woman may have reason, though she is not without heart, and if I felt 'worse luck,' it was no ignoble feeling--it was only too natural. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Am I so ignoble? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But eighteen glasses of gin consumed among boxers in an ignoble pot-house--it was an odious crime and not to be pardoned readily. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Norris