Antonyms 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

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

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

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1. ignoble

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

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

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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.

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

   Synonyms:
   ungentle, untitled

2. ignoble, ungentle, untitledadjective

   not of the nobility

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

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

   Synonyms:
   ungentle, untitled

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1. ignobleadjective

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

How to use ignoble in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Bertolt Brecht:

   Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

4. Albert Einstein:

   He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

5. Francis de Sales:

   It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

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