Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

infra dig

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English

Syllables: in-fra dig
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Beneath one's dignity.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"It would be regarded as infra dig., I am told, for an American professor of English to concern himself too actively with the English spoken by nearly a hundred millions of his countrymen."
"Gradually the hoop fell out of favour. Possibly with the increase in traffic, it was no longer safe to bowl one's hoop over the pavement and it had to be taken into the park. Perhaps it was the coming of the scooter which made it infra dig. to carry a hoop."
"I'm a communicator, not a doer. Anyway, isn't it infra dig for a westerner to actually do anything these days?"

Etymology

Shortened form of Latin infrā dignitātem (literally “beneath [one's] dignity”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: infrā dignitātem

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

infra dig. (alternative)

Phrases

de minimis

Frequently Paired Words

de minimis

Synonyms

infra dignitatem

Questions

What does infra dig mean?: Beneath one's dignity.
Where does infra dig come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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