ignominiously
/ˌɪɡ.nəˈmɪ.ni.əs.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.89 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a manner which is ignominious (“especially of a person: deserving of disgrace or dishonour; contemptible, despicable; (generally) causing or marked by disgrace or dishonour; disgraceful, dishonourable; also (loosely), humiliating, shameful”).
Example Sentences
- "Men ignorant in letters, ſtudious for their bellies, and ignominiouſly lazie, vnleſſe ſome fevv that giue themſelues to nauigation; and become indifferent good Pilots."
- "But the death of the royal captive, vvho vvas ignominiouſly beheaded, diſgraced the triumph of Rome and of Chriſtianity; […]"
- "A window opened above the shop, and a frowsty-looking man, yellow-pale, was quickly and nervously hauling in the national flag. There were shouts of derision and mockery—a great overtone of acrid derision—the flag and its owner ignominiously disappeared."
- "He laughed rather ruefully, as he described how he had discovered a very rare species of fern in an inaccessible place, and in his efforts to obtain it had lost his footing, and slipped ignominiously into a neighbouring pond."
- "But his [James Dewey Watson]'s official career there ended ignominiously in 2007 after he ignited an uproar by suggesting, in an interview with The Sunday Times in London, that Black people, over all, were not as intelligent as white people."
Etymology
Etymology tree English ignominious Middle English -ly English -ly English ignominiously From ignominious + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from nouns). Ignominious is derived 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- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning not)) + nōmen (“name; good name, reputation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”)) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ignominious, ignominieux, ignōminiōsus, *h₁nómn̥
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɪɡ.nəˈmɪ.ni.əs.li/
- British English: /ˌɪɡ.nə(ʊ)ˈmɪ.ni.əs.li/
Inflected Forms
more ignominiously (comparative)
most ignominiously (superlative)