Word Meanings - DISGRACEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. -- Dis*grace"ful*fy, adv. -- Dis*grace"ful*ness, n. The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. B. Jonson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISGRACEFUL)

• Flagitious
• Facinorous
• atrocious
• enormous
• monstrous
• disgraceful
• nefarious
• scandalous
• flagrant
• heinous
• aggravated
• Inglorious
• Shameful
• unrenowned
• Shocking
• Sad
• horrible
• hateful
• revolting
• abominable
• loathsome
• foul

Related words: (words related to DISGRACEFUL)

• ABOMINABLENESS
  The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.
• AGGRAVATING
  1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
• ABOMINABLE
  1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable. 2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. Note: Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time ,
• SCANDALOUSLY
  1. In a manner to give offense; shamefully. His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the digmity of his station. Swift. 2. With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong. Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• FACINOROUS
  Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n.
• ENORMOUSLY
  In an enormous degree.
• HATEFUL
  1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn.
• ENORMOUS
  1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• MONSTROUS
  1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural
• HEINOUS
  Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton. Syn.
• SHOCK
  A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. (more info) quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set
• INGLORIOUSLY
  In an inglorious manner; dishonorably; with shame; ignominiously; obscurely.
• ENORMOUSNESS
  The state of being enormous.
• REVOLT
  Etym: 1. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free.
• INGLORIOUS
  1. Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease. Shak. My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life. Dryden. Some
• NEFARIOUS
  Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile. Syn. -- Iniquitous; detestable; horrible; heinious; atrocious; infamous; impious. See Iniquitous. -- Ne*fa"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Ne*fa"ri*ous*ness, n.
• FLAGRANTLY
  In a flagrant manner.
• ABHORRIBLE
  Detestable.