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. 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.

2. Jonathan Turley:

   No president in history has used this power to pardon himself – not Andrew Johnson, not Richard Nixon, not Bill Clinton. It would be a truly ignoble, historical moment for Donald Trump to use this type of power.

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. 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

5. 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.