ignoble

Borrowed from Middle French ignoble, from Latin ignōbilis, from in- (“not”) + gnōbilis, later nōbilis (“noble”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈnəʊbəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊbəl

ignoble (comparative ignobler, superlative ignoblest)

1. Not noble; plebeian; common.
   • Shakespeare

     I was not ignoble of descent.

2. Not honorable; base.
   • Shakespeare

     A base, ignoble mind, / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

   • Gray

     far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife

3. Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:ignoble.

• (common): common, plebeian, vulgar
• (not honorable): degenerate, mean, base, vile, low-minded, reproachful, shameful, disgraceful

• (common): noble
• (not honorable): noble, honorable

• ignobility
• ignobleness
• ignobly

• Gobelin, gobline, inglobe

From Middle French ignoble, borrowed from Latin ignōbilis, from in- (“not”) + gnōbilis, later nōbilis (“noble”).

• IPA^(key): /i.ɲɔbl/

ignoble (plural ignobles)

1. disgusting, repulsive, horrible

• “ignoble” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• gobelin