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Integrate vs Ignominious - What's the difference?

integrate | ignominious |

As a verb integrate

is to form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

As an adjective ignominious is

marked by shame or disgrace.

integrate

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

  • To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
  • To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
  • (mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
  • To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    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