Synonyms for ignoble
ɪgˈnoʊ bəlig·no·ble

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1. ignobleadjective

   Antonyms:
   honorable, noble

2. ignobleadjective

   Antonyms:
   honorable, noble

3. ignobleadjective

   Not honorable.

   Synonyms:
   shameful, degenerate, mean, dishonorable, reproachful, base, disgraceful

   Antonyms:
   honorable, noble

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1. ignoble

   Synonyms:
   avaricious, close, covetous, greedy, illiberal, mean, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, stingy

   Antonyms:
   bountiful, chivalrous, disinterested, free, free-handed, free-hearted, generous, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, open-handed, open-hearted

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1. ignoble

   Synonyms:
   moun, base, dishonorable, humble, plebian, lowly

   Antonyms:
   honorable, noble, eminent, exalted, lordly, grand, notable, illustrious

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1. ignobleadjective

   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:
   ungentle, untitled

   Antonyms:
   noble, rarified, elevated, high-minded, magnanimous, idealistic, exalted, sublime, greathearted, lofty, noble-minded, ennobling, grand, dignifying, high-flown, rarefied

2. ignoble, ungentle, untitledadjective

   not of the nobility

   "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"

   Synonyms:
   ungentle, untitled

   Antonyms:
   noble, noble-minded, high-minded, exalted, dignifying, grand, idealistic, ennobling, rarefied, rarified, elevated, magnanimous, greathearted, high-flown, sublime, lofty

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1. ignobleadjective

   Synonyms:
   plebeian, vulgar, untitled, base-born, low-born, mean, low

2. ignobleadjective

   Synonyms:
   worthless, insignificant, mean, contemptible

3. ignobleadjective

   Synonyms:
   dishonorable, disgraceful, infamous, base

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1. ignobleadjective

   Synonyms:
   humble, plebeian, untitled, base, dishonorable, low

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1. List of paraphrases for "ignoble":

   vile, despicable, undignified, shameful, disgraceful

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1. Nicholas Alahverdian:

   I had other problems — I dressed nicely. I used words that were not monosyllabic. I aspired to go to Harvard University or Yale. The DCYF receptionist and the security guard would nod and smile at the narrative for my future. The social workers would counsel me to dress with baggy jeans and speak like a child so as to not elicit beatings by the other kids.” Excerpt From: Nicholas Alahverdian. “Ignoble Inferno/ The Nicholas Alahverdian Lawsuit.” iBooks.

2. Manu:

   Let a man accept with confidence valuable knowledge even from a person of low degree, good instruction regarding duty even from a humble man, and a jewel of a wife even from an ignoble family.

3. Thomas Gray:

   Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

4. Frank Lloyd Wright:

   Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

5. Benjamin Spock:

   What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble