Ignominious vs Embarrassing - What's the difference?
ignominious | embarrassing |
Marked by shame or disgrace.
*1902 , Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence , page 242:
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Causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness.
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As adjectives the difference between ignominious and embarrassing
is that ignominious is marked by shame or disgrace while embarrassing is causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness.As a verb embarrassing is
.As a noun embarrassing is
the action of the verb to embarrass .ignominious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
- In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year.
Synonyms
* debasing * degrading * humiliatingDerived terms
* ignominiouslyembarrassing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}