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mean suggests small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity. ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit. abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility. sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness.
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morally bad and making you feel ashamed: an ignoble action / idea. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Humiliating and degrading. abase. abasement. be under a cloud idiom. bring/take someone down a peg (or two) idiom. bruise someone's ego idiom.
Definition of ignoble adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Perhaps it is ignoble to complain. This year's roster of losers comes in a diverse set of flavors, but there's a connection between them -- a sort of brotherhood of ignoble and spasmodic failure. The noble man is not only more rational than the ignoble but stronger in desire.
adjective. 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.”. synonyms: cowardly, fearful.
There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the word ignoble, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
ignoble in American English. (ɪgˈnoʊbəl ) adjective. 1. not noble in birth or position; of the common people. 2. not noble in character or quality; dishonorable; base; mean. SIMILAR WORDS: base. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.
