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ignominious

Pronunciation: /ˌɪɡ.nə(ʊ)ˈmɪ.ni.əs/

The English word “ignominious” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Especially of a person: deserving of disgrace or dishonour; contemptible, despicable.
  2. Causing or marked by disgrace or dishonour; disgraceful, dishonourable; also (loosely), humiliating, shameful.

Etymology

From Late Middle English ignominious (“disgraceful, shameful”), from Middle French ignominieux (modern French ignominieux), or from its etymon Latin ignōminiōsus (“disgraced; disgraceful, shameful, ignominious”), from ignōminia (“disgrace, dishonour, shame, ignominy”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Ignōminia is derived from ig- (variant of in-…

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