ignominy
/ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: bad name"
- "But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen."
- "Bradly came out from hiding with a dyspeptic grunt, too depressed by ignominy to send a curse after the old woman."
- "Calvin: Our great plan backfired and I'm the one who got soaked! Oh, the shame! The ignominy!"
- "It was tribal, almost relentless and, in the case of the official England band, there was a degree of ignominy, too, for repeatedly playing a tune for which the words go “Fuck the IRA”, something that could lead to a full breakdown of their relationship with the FA."
- "The lawyer who shot to ignominy last week with a racist rant at a Manhattan lunch spot apologized Tuesday on social media, where a video of his threat to call immigration agents on Spanish-speaking workers had first gone viral."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ignōminia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni/
- British English: /ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni/