Antonyms for inglorious
ɪnˈglɔr i əs, -ˈgloʊr-in·glo·ri·ous

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1. inglorious

   Antonyms:
   illustrious, glorious, renowned

   Synonyms:
   shameful, disgraceful, unrenowned

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1. black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shamefuladjective

   (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

   "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

   Antonyms:
   inspired, divine, incandescent, celebrated, bright, sublime, glorious, lustrous, illustrious, storied, empyrean, empyreal, elysian, historied, honourable, honorable

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, scurrilous, grim, calamitous, abusive, blackened, fateful, black, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, scandalous, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, shocking, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

2. ingloriousadjective

   not bringing honor and glory

   "some mute inglorious Milton here may rest"

   Antonyms:
   honourable, incandescent, celebrated, honorable, empyreal, glorious, illustrious, storied, lustrous, divine, historied, inspired, bright, empyrean, elysian, sublime

   Synonyms:
   opprobrious, disgraceful, black, shameful, ignominious

How to use inglorious in a sentence?

1. Napoleon Bonaparte:

   Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily

2. Philip Howard:

   Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

3. Napoleon Bonaparte:

   Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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