Definition of ignoble in English:

ignoble

adjectiveignobler, ignoblest ɪɡˈnəʊb(ə)lɪɡˈnoʊbəl

1Not honourable in character or purpose.
卑鄙的，可耻的
ignoble feelings of intense jealousy
可耻的强烈嫉妒感。
Example sentencesExamples
- First in an ignoble line was the East India Company, set up by British merchant adventurers and granted the Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1600.
- A combination of Julius Caesar, Bertold Brecht, Benito Mussolini and Huey Long biopic it is a masterful novel, an in depth portrait of the struggles even ignoble politicians face and a meditation on the price of politics.
- Live life for God and our motives are no longer mercenary, and our life is not founded on an ignoble base.
- He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths.
- In the eyes of many contemporary and also later Chinese, this was an ignoble outcome that strongly compromised China's dignity and interests.
- For we recognize that the powers made possible by biomedical science can be used for non-therapeutic or ignoble purposes, serving ends that range from the frivolous and disquieting to the offensive and pernicious.
- There is also a strong message that vengeance is ignoble, and sacrificing oneself for any higher cause is honorable.
- Still, I can't help but wonder aloud if now that credits credit almost everyone, it isn't far more ignoble to say that writing a large chunk of a movie still doesn't deserve even cursory recognition.
- Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies.
- In ‘Useful Idiots,’ her devastating new book on the left's ignoble Cold War history, Mona Charen rounds up some telling examples.
- Underworld's greatest hits collection struggled painfully to number 46 in the album charts and dropped out a week later: an ignoble fate for a record containing some of the most headily innovative music of the past 10 years.
- Circumstances might occasion modification of the principles, but there was nothing ignoble in the tradition of beginning with strong prima facie respect for inherited wisdom and being cautious in departing from it.
- But the elevated, even chivalric, tone in which it is being conducted scarcely even masks its onesided and ignoble purpose.
- He loves to cite historical accounts of how she maintained her regal bearing to the end, how even her detractors reported that, on her ignoble cart ride to the guillotine, ‘she was never more of a queen.’
- Somehow, over the past decade, the duty to protect open government has been nudged aside by another, more ignoble purpose: the desire to bestow political favors.
- Pink or brown, time to break with an ignoble past, and that includes breaking with reptile-brained reactions to differences in skin-melanin content or epicanthic eyelid folds.
- All it requires is following the example of some of their more ignoble predecessors - the Dixiecrats.
- Of course it is ignoble to invoke the nanny state in order to correct your own personal weakness, but at least my friends' motives were somehow honest, and based on intimate knowledge of the people they knew best - themselves.
- The vicarious emotions that the accounts of the trial provoked range from the honourable, through the ignoble to the thoroughly perverse.
- It's pretty ignoble stuff but the author attempts to redeem himself 12 years later when he goes to live with the actress and her two children, including a daughter from another relationship.
Synonyms
dishonourable, unworthy, base, shameful, contemptible, despicable, shabby, abject, low, sordid, degraded, corrupt, mean, wrong
improper, unprincipled, unchivalrous, uncharitable, discreditable, blameworthy, reprehensible
2Of humble origin or social status.
出身卑微的；卑贱的，地位低下的
Example sentencesExamples
- Yerby's characterization of Fancy is, therefore, ironic, emphasizing the ignoble origins of most Southerners.
- But perhaps not: a victim is not necessarily ignoble or contemptible, except in the racist terms of others.
- It reads: ‘The working classes must be freed from their state of ignoble slavery through rational socialism.’
- There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization.
- All right, Tarzan has no black characters, not even servants, neither noble nor ignoble savages.
- Travellers from Marco Polo onwards had created a rich and often fanciful literature depicting the lives of noble and ignoble savages in varying states of nature.
- Yesterday she had been so vilely common and ignoble… almost as if she had no regard for any life… any life save his.
- They were an ignoble race not unlike the despicable Gorlocs, and they needed to be defeated for their dishonor.
Synonyms
humble, low, low-born, low-bred, low-ranking, plebeian, proletarian, peasant, poor

Derivatives

ignobility

noun ɪɡnəˈbɪlɪtiɪɡˌnoʊˈbɪlədi

The germ of his falling-out with his beloved Wagner lay in his growing awareness of Wagner's personal ignobility and malevolence.
Example sentencesExamples
- I took the Salon piece as an attempt to honestly portray an ignoble (not evil, but ignoble) side of human nature, without praising it and even while acknowledging its ignobility.
- It is almost an axiom that no man may make a career in politics in the Republic without stooping to such ignobility: it is as necessary as a loud voice.
- The explanation follows - the women, thus monumentalized, are eternally atoning for the ignobility of Caryae, a Greek state which allied with the Persians, and shared their defeat.
- But viewed from another perspective, the Swedes have written a new chapter in ignobility, presenting the world's top literary honor to an author who considers his own work irrelevant.

ignobly

adverb

Or maybe I would fall in, ignobly, with the packs of Hollywood runaways I had seen profiled sensationally on television news magazines.
Example sentencesExamples
- April 1 marks their ignobly titled tin anniversary at the Rock, a 10-year innings that makes them one of the country's longest-running radio pairings.
- Nonetheless, Jenkins underlines his subject's vulnerability well, interspersing nuggets from Lear and Prospero with tag lines from the fish-stick commercials Welles ignobly resorted to in his old age.
- Without assuming that men are intrinsically more likely to behave badly than women, the current state of affairs is that most sport celebrities are men, and most of those who behave ignobly are also men.
- This is the disheartening tale of a noble people ignobly led.

Origin

Late Middle English (in sense 2): from French, or from Latin ignobilis, from in- 'not' + gnobilis, older form of nobilis 'noble'.

Rhymes

coble, ennoble, Froebel, global, Grenoble, noble

Definition of ignoble in US English:

ignoble

adjectiveɪɡˈnoʊbəliɡˈnōbəl

1Not honorable in character or purpose.
卑鄙的，可耻的
ignoble feelings of intense jealousy
可耻的强烈嫉妒感。
Example sentencesExamples
- Of course it is ignoble to invoke the nanny state in order to correct your own personal weakness, but at least my friends' motives were somehow honest, and based on intimate knowledge of the people they knew best - themselves.
- He loves to cite historical accounts of how she maintained her regal bearing to the end, how even her detractors reported that, on her ignoble cart ride to the guillotine, ‘she was never more of a queen.’
- Underworld's greatest hits collection struggled painfully to number 46 in the album charts and dropped out a week later: an ignoble fate for a record containing some of the most headily innovative music of the past 10 years.
- But the elevated, even chivalric, tone in which it is being conducted scarcely even masks its onesided and ignoble purpose.
- In the eyes of many contemporary and also later Chinese, this was an ignoble outcome that strongly compromised China's dignity and interests.
- For we recognize that the powers made possible by biomedical science can be used for non-therapeutic or ignoble purposes, serving ends that range from the frivolous and disquieting to the offensive and pernicious.
- Circumstances might occasion modification of the principles, but there was nothing ignoble in the tradition of beginning with strong prima facie respect for inherited wisdom and being cautious in departing from it.
- All it requires is following the example of some of their more ignoble predecessors - the Dixiecrats.
- Still, I can't help but wonder aloud if now that credits credit almost everyone, it isn't far more ignoble to say that writing a large chunk of a movie still doesn't deserve even cursory recognition.
- Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies.
- Live life for God and our motives are no longer mercenary, and our life is not founded on an ignoble base.
- Pink or brown, time to break with an ignoble past, and that includes breaking with reptile-brained reactions to differences in skin-melanin content or epicanthic eyelid folds.
- First in an ignoble line was the East India Company, set up by British merchant adventurers and granted the Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1600.
- He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths.
- It's pretty ignoble stuff but the author attempts to redeem himself 12 years later when he goes to live with the actress and her two children, including a daughter from another relationship.
- In ‘Useful Idiots,’ her devastating new book on the left's ignoble Cold War history, Mona Charen rounds up some telling examples.
- There is also a strong message that vengeance is ignoble, and sacrificing oneself for any higher cause is honorable.
- A combination of Julius Caesar, Bertold Brecht, Benito Mussolini and Huey Long biopic it is a masterful novel, an in depth portrait of the struggles even ignoble politicians face and a meditation on the price of politics.
- The vicarious emotions that the accounts of the trial provoked range from the honourable, through the ignoble to the thoroughly perverse.
- Somehow, over the past decade, the duty to protect open government has been nudged aside by another, more ignoble purpose: the desire to bestow political favors.
Synonyms
dishonourable, unworthy, base, shameful, contemptible, despicable, shabby, abject, low, sordid, degraded, corrupt, mean, wrong
2Of humble origin or social status.
出身卑微的；卑贱的，地位低下的
Example sentencesExamples
- But perhaps not: a victim is not necessarily ignoble or contemptible, except in the racist terms of others.
- They were an ignoble race not unlike the despicable Gorlocs, and they needed to be defeated for their dishonor.
- All right, Tarzan has no black characters, not even servants, neither noble nor ignoble savages.
- Yerby's characterization of Fancy is, therefore, ironic, emphasizing the ignoble origins of most Southerners.
- It reads: ‘The working classes must be freed from their state of ignoble slavery through rational socialism.’
- There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization.
- Yesterday she had been so vilely common and ignoble… almost as if she had no regard for any life… any life save his.
- Travellers from Marco Polo onwards had created a rich and often fanciful literature depicting the lives of noble and ignoble savages in varying states of nature.
Synonyms
humble, low, low-born, low-bred, low-ranking, plebeian, proletarian, peasant, poor

Origin

Late Middle English (in ignoble (sense 2)): from French, or from Latin ignobilis, from in- ‘not’ + gnobilis, older form of nobilis ‘noble’.

词汇	ignoble
释义	Definition of ignoble in English: ignoble adjectiveignobler, ignoblest ɪɡˈnəʊb(ə)lɪɡˈnoʊbəl 1Not honourable in character or purpose. 卑鄙的，可耻的 ignoble feelings of intense jealousy 可耻的强烈嫉妒感。 Example sentencesExamples First in an ignoble line was the East India Company, set up by British merchant adventurers and granted the Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1600. A combination of Julius Caesar, Bertold Brecht, Benito Mussolini and Huey Long biopic it is a masterful novel, an in depth portrait of the struggles even ignoble politicians face and a meditation on the price of politics. Live life for God and our motives are no longer mercenary, and our life is not founded on an ignoble base. He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths. In the eyes of many contemporary and also later Chinese, this was an ignoble outcome that strongly compromised China's dignity and interests. For we recognize that the powers made possible by biomedical science can be used for non-therapeutic or ignoble purposes, serving ends that range from the frivolous and disquieting to the offensive and pernicious. There is also a strong message that vengeance is ignoble, and sacrificing oneself for any higher cause is honorable. Still, I can't help but wonder aloud if now that credits credit almost everyone, it isn't far more ignoble to say that writing a large chunk of a movie still doesn't deserve even cursory recognition. Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies. In ‘Useful Idiots,’ her devastating new book on the left's ignoble Cold War history, Mona Charen rounds up some telling examples. Underworld's greatest hits collection struggled painfully to number 46 in the album charts and dropped out a week later: an ignoble fate for a record containing some of the most headily innovative music of the past 10 years. Circumstances might occasion modification of the principles, but there was nothing ignoble in the tradition of beginning with strong prima facie respect for inherited wisdom and being cautious in departing from it. But the elevated, even chivalric, tone in which it is being conducted scarcely even masks its onesided and ignoble purpose. He loves to cite historical accounts of how she maintained her regal bearing to the end, how even her detractors reported that, on her ignoble cart ride to the guillotine, ‘she was never more of a queen.’ Somehow, over the past decade, the duty to protect open government has been nudged aside by another, more ignoble purpose: the desire to bestow political favors. Pink or brown, time to break with an ignoble past, and that includes breaking with reptile-brained reactions to differences in skin-melanin content or epicanthic eyelid folds. All it requires is following the example of some of their more ignoble predecessors - the Dixiecrats. Of course it is ignoble to invoke the nanny state in order to correct your own personal weakness, but at least my friends' motives were somehow honest, and based on intimate knowledge of the people they knew best - themselves. The vicarious emotions that the accounts of the trial provoked range from the honourable, through the ignoble to the thoroughly perverse. It's pretty ignoble stuff but the author attempts to redeem himself 12 years later when he goes to live with the actress and her two children, including a daughter from another relationship. Synonyms dishonourable, unworthy, base, shameful, contemptible, despicable, shabby, abject, low, sordid, degraded, corrupt, mean, wrong improper, unprincipled, unchivalrous, uncharitable, discreditable, blameworthy, reprehensible 2Of humble origin or social status. 出身卑微的；卑贱的，地位低下的 Example sentencesExamples Yerby's characterization of Fancy is, therefore, ironic, emphasizing the ignoble origins of most Southerners. But perhaps not: a victim is not necessarily ignoble or contemptible, except in the racist terms of others. It reads: ‘The working classes must be freed from their state of ignoble slavery through rational socialism.’ There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization. All right, Tarzan has no black characters, not even servants, neither noble nor ignoble savages. Travellers from Marco Polo onwards had created a rich and often fanciful literature depicting the lives of noble and ignoble savages in varying states of nature. Yesterday she had been so vilely common and ignoble… almost as if she had no regard for any life… any life save his. They were an ignoble race not unlike the despicable Gorlocs, and they needed to be defeated for their dishonor. Synonyms humble, low, low-born, low-bred, low-ranking, plebeian, proletarian, peasant, poor Derivatives ignobility noun ɪɡnəˈbɪlɪtiɪɡˌnoʊˈbɪlədi The germ of his falling-out with his beloved Wagner lay in his growing awareness of Wagner's personal ignobility and malevolence. Example sentencesExamples I took the Salon piece as an attempt to honestly portray an ignoble (not evil, but ignoble) side of human nature, without praising it and even while acknowledging its ignobility. It is almost an axiom that no man may make a career in politics in the Republic without stooping to such ignobility: it is as necessary as a loud voice. The explanation follows - the women, thus monumentalized, are eternally atoning for the ignobility of Caryae, a Greek state which allied with the Persians, and shared their defeat. But viewed from another perspective, the Swedes have written a new chapter in ignobility, presenting the world's top literary honor to an author who considers his own work irrelevant. ignobly adverb Or maybe I would fall in, ignobly, with the packs of Hollywood runaways I had seen profiled sensationally on television news magazines. Example sentencesExamples April 1 marks their ignobly titled tin anniversary at the Rock, a 10-year innings that makes them one of the country's longest-running radio pairings. Nonetheless, Jenkins underlines his subject's vulnerability well, interspersing nuggets from Lear and Prospero with tag lines from the fish-stick commercials Welles ignobly resorted to in his old age. Without assuming that men are intrinsically more likely to behave badly than women, the current state of affairs is that most sport celebrities are men, and most of those who behave ignobly are also men. This is the disheartening tale of a noble people ignobly led. Origin Late Middle English (in sense 2): from French, or from Latin ignobilis, from in- 'not' + gnobilis, older form of nobilis 'noble'. Rhymes coble, ennoble, Froebel, global, Grenoble, noble Definition of ignoble in US English: ignoble adjectiveɪɡˈnoʊbəliɡˈnōbəl 1Not honorable in character or purpose. 卑鄙的，可耻的 ignoble feelings of intense jealousy 可耻的强烈嫉妒感。 Example sentencesExamples Of course it is ignoble to invoke the nanny state in order to correct your own personal weakness, but at least my friends' motives were somehow honest, and based on intimate knowledge of the people they knew best - themselves. He loves to cite historical accounts of how she maintained her regal bearing to the end, how even her detractors reported that, on her ignoble cart ride to the guillotine, ‘she was never more of a queen.’ Underworld's greatest hits collection struggled painfully to number 46 in the album charts and dropped out a week later: an ignoble fate for a record containing some of the most headily innovative music of the past 10 years. But the elevated, even chivalric, tone in which it is being conducted scarcely even masks its onesided and ignoble purpose. In the eyes of many contemporary and also later Chinese, this was an ignoble outcome that strongly compromised China's dignity and interests. For we recognize that the powers made possible by biomedical science can be used for non-therapeutic or ignoble purposes, serving ends that range from the frivolous and disquieting to the offensive and pernicious. Circumstances might occasion modification of the principles, but there was nothing ignoble in the tradition of beginning with strong prima facie respect for inherited wisdom and being cautious in departing from it. All it requires is following the example of some of their more ignoble predecessors - the Dixiecrats. Still, I can't help but wonder aloud if now that credits credit almost everyone, it isn't far more ignoble to say that writing a large chunk of a movie still doesn't deserve even cursory recognition. Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies. Live life for God and our motives are no longer mercenary, and our life is not founded on an ignoble base. Pink or brown, time to break with an ignoble past, and that includes breaking with reptile-brained reactions to differences in skin-melanin content or epicanthic eyelid folds. First in an ignoble line was the East India Company, set up by British merchant adventurers and granted the Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1600. He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths. It's pretty ignoble stuff but the author attempts to redeem himself 12 years later when he goes to live with the actress and her two children, including a daughter from another relationship. In ‘Useful Idiots,’ her devastating new book on the left's ignoble Cold War history, Mona Charen rounds up some telling examples. There is also a strong message that vengeance is ignoble, and sacrificing oneself for any higher cause is honorable. A combination of Julius Caesar, Bertold Brecht, Benito Mussolini and Huey Long biopic it is a masterful novel, an in depth portrait of the struggles even ignoble politicians face and a meditation on the price of politics. The vicarious emotions that the accounts of the trial provoked range from the honourable, through the ignoble to the thoroughly perverse. Somehow, over the past decade, the duty to protect open government has been nudged aside by another, more ignoble purpose: the desire to bestow political favors. Synonyms dishonourable, unworthy, base, shameful, contemptible, despicable, shabby, abject, low, sordid, degraded, corrupt, mean, wrong 2Of humble origin or social status. 出身卑微的；卑贱的，地位低下的 Example sentencesExamples But perhaps not: a victim is not necessarily ignoble or contemptible, except in the racist terms of others. They were an ignoble race not unlike the despicable Gorlocs, and they needed to be defeated for their dishonor. All right, Tarzan has no black characters, not even servants, neither noble nor ignoble savages. Yerby's characterization of Fancy is, therefore, ironic, emphasizing the ignoble origins of most Southerners. It reads: ‘The working classes must be freed from their state of ignoble slavery through rational socialism.’ There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization. Yesterday she had been so vilely common and ignoble… almost as if she had no regard for any life… any life save his. Travellers from Marco Polo onwards had created a rich and often fanciful literature depicting the lives of noble and ignoble savages in varying states of nature. Synonyms humble, low, low-born, low-bred, low-ranking, plebeian, proletarian, peasant, poor Origin Late Middle English (in ignoble (sense 2)): from French, or from Latin ignobilis, from in- ‘not’ + gnobilis, older form of nobilis ‘noble’.
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