Ignoble means not noble, but for those of us that don’t live in feudal England and don’t worry about lords or peasants, ignoble just means base, or low, like that dude in Biology who’s always telling fart jokes.
Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
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.
Adjective S.
not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"
a.
Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious;
plebeian; common; humble.
a.
Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.
a.
Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as
the goshawk.
v. t.
To make ignoble.
Ignoble
I was not ignoble of descent.
Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants.2.
'T but a base, ignoble mind, That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.3.
Ignoble
Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
To make ignoble.
Usage Examples
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Other Usage ExamplesCoercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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