Associations to the word «Ignoble»
Noun
Wiktionary
IGNOBLE, adjective. Not noble; plebeian; common.
IGNOBLE, adjective. Not honorable; base.
IGNOBLE, adjective. Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.
Dictionary definition
IGNOBLE, adjective. 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..
IGNOBLE, adjective. Not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians".
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