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ignobleadjective belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rankan ignoble child who would one day grow up to be a prince among playwrights baseborn, common, humble, inferior, low, lowborn, lower-class, low-life, lowly, lumpen, mean, plebeian, prole, proletarian, unwashed, vulgar bourgeois, middle-classplain, poor, simple, working-classdéclassé, down-market, downscale aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred, lofty, noble, patrician, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn eminent, illustrious, notable, prominent not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decencysuch an ignoble act is completely unworthy of a military officer base, contemptible, currish, despicable, detestable, dirty, dishonorable, execrable, ignominious, low, low-down, low-minded, mean, nasty, paltry, snide, sordid, vile, wretched bad, black, evil, foul, immoral, iniquitous, miscreant, wicked, wrongcruel, viciousblamable, blameworthy, censurable, reprehensiblecorrupt, debased, debauched, degenerate, depraved, dissolute, pervertedatrocious, villainousunethical, unprincipled, unscrupulousdiscreditable, disgraceful, disreputable, shameful, unworthy high, high-minded, honorable, lofty, noble, straight, upright, venerable, virtuous ethical, honest, just, principled, righteous, right-minded, scrupulouscommendable, excellent, exemplary, good, moral, rightdecent, proper, reputable, respectable, seemlyblameless, guiltlessincorruptible, irreproachableuncorrupted, unerring mean, ignoble, abject, sordid mean being below the normal standards of human decency and dignity.mean suggests small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity.mean and petty satire ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit.an ignoble scramble after material possessions abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility.abject poverty sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness.a sordid story of murder and revenge in the 15th century |