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Ignominious vs Infamy - What's the difference?

ignominious | infamy |

As an adjective ignominious

is marked by shame or disgrace.

As a noun infamy is

the state of being infamous.

ignominious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Marked by shame or disgrace.
  • *1902 , Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence , page 242:
    • 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 * humiliating

    Derived terms

    * ignominiously

    Related terms

    * ignominy

    infamy

    English

    Noun

    (infamies)
  • The state of being infamous.
  • A reputation as being evil.
    • "Infamy', '''infamy - they've all got it in for me!" - Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in ''Carry On Cleo
    "A date which will live in infamy " - Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour