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Illustrious vs Unillustrious - What's the difference?

illustrious | unillustrious |

As adjectives the difference between illustrious and unillustrious

is that illustrious is dignified while unillustrious is not illustrious.

illustrious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • dignified
  • unillustrious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not illustrious.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=Various, title=Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, Sep. 24, 1892, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The "Metropolitans" followed the example of many unillustrious predecessors, though it must, in justice, be added, that they would have been shocked to hear anyone impute to them a want of originality in their curious methods. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1915, author=Richard Le Gallienne, title=Vanishing Roads and Other Essays, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=One has known actors, far from unillustrious , who staked their whole performance on some such learned triviality or some trifling novelty of business, when, for example, in Hamlet's scene with his mother, the prince comes to: Look here upon this picture, and on this. }}