Ignoble

Definition of Ignoble

Ig`no´ble

a.	1.	Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble. I was not ignoble of descent. - Shak. Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants. - Shak.
	2.	Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base. 'T is but a base, ignoble mind, That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. - Shak. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. - Gray.
	3.	(Zool.) Not a true or noble falcon; - said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.
v. t.	1.	To make ignoble.

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abhorrent, abominable, base-minded, baseborn, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, coarse, common, contemptible, crude, derogatory, detestable, discreditable, disgusting, disreputable, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, homely, humble, infamous, inferior, inglorious, loathsome, low, low-minded, lowborn, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, modest, nasty, nauseating, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, ordinary, peasant, plain, plebeian, poor, popular, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scrubby, scurvy, seamy, servile, shady, sickening, simple, sorry, stinking, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, unwashed, vile, wretched

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