ignominy
Other forms: ignominies
If you walk into class in your underwear, you'll know what the word ignominy means. Ignominy is a noun meaning great public shame, disgrace, or embarrassment, or a situation or event that causes this.
The shame can be major or minor: someone can suffer the ignominy of defeat or the ignominies of old age. When pronouncing this word, the main accent is on the first syllable, and the secondary accent is on the third syllable. Ignominy is from Latin the ignominia, formed from the prefix in-, "no, not," plus nomen, "name." The implication is that if someone has suffered ignominy, they have lost their good name or reputation.
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a state of dishonor“suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison”types:humiliationstate of disgrace or loss of self-respectodiumstate of disgrace resulting from detestable behaviorreproachdisgrace or shame
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