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English adjective: ignoble

1. ignoble completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose


SamplesSomething 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.


Similarbase, currish, mean, meanspirited


See alsocontemptible, cowardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, fearful


Attributegrandeur, magnanimousness, nobility, nobleness


Antonymsnoble

2. ignoble not of the nobility


SamplesOf ignoble (or ungentle) birth.
Untitled civilians.


Synonymsungentle, untitled


Similarlowborn


Antonymsnoble









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