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Antonyms for renown
rɪˈnaʊnrenown
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
renown
Fame is the widely disseminated report of a person's character, deeds, or abilities, and is oftenest used in the favorable sense. Reputation and repute are more limited than fame, and may be either good or bad. Notoriety is evil repute or a dishonorable counterfeit of fame. Eminence and distinction may result from rank, station, or character. Celebrity is limited in range; we speak of local celebrity, or world-wide fame. Fame in its best sense may be defined as the applause of numbers; renown, as such applause worthily won; we speak of the conqueror's fame, the patriot's renown. Glory and honor are of good import; honor may be given for qualities or acts that should not win it, but it is always given as something good and worthy; we can speak of an evil fame, but not of evil honor; glory has a more exalted and often a sacred sense.
Antonyms:
contempt, contumely, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, oblivion, obscurity, shameSynonyms:
celebrity, credit, distinction, eminence, fame, glory, honor, laurels, notoriety, reputation, repute
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renown
Antonyms:
disgrace, meanness, ignobleness, degradation, taint, stain, brand, discredit, dishonor, disreputeSynonyms:
fame, distinction, note, notability, eminence, celebrity, glory, reputation, lustre, honor
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Princeton's WordNet
fame, celebrity, renownnoun
the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
Synonyms:
famous person, celebrity, fame
How to use renown in a sentence?
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.
For us to get released from Renown and go home was scary, but such a relief, our family hadn’t been home in three months, so that part was amazing. But then the rehabilitation started and it was scary.
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89):
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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