| 单词 | inglorious |
| 释义 | inglorious (once / 3492 pages) adj Something inglorious is shameful or disgraceful. An inglorious end to a politician's career might include evidence that he bought people's votes and lied about his educational background. You could call World War II a generally inglorious period in Germany's history, or talk about a southern US city with an inglorious record of bias against African Americans. And if your favorite basketball team loses every game, they have an inglorious season. Inglorious adds the "not" prefix in- to glorious, from its Latin root gloriosus, "full of glory" or "famous." WORD FAMILYinglorious: ingloriously+/glorification: glorifications/glorify: glorification, glorified, glorifies, glorifying/glorious: gloriousest, gloriously, inglorious/glory: gloried, glories, glorify, glorious, glorying USAGE EXAMPLESHis heyday was the fifties and early sixties; after it, he released the inglorious single “My Ding-a-Ling,” weirding out a great many and amusing others. The New Yorker(Oct 18, 2016) Rightwing paramilitarism in Colombia also has an inglorious history of targeting – or “disappearing” – peasants, unionists, human rights activists and supporters of leftist political movements. The Guardian(Sep 25, 2016) It was inglorious end to a short chapter of Rams history that started with promise. Los Angeles Times(Jul 27, 2016) 1adj (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame inglorious defeat Syn black, disgraceful, ignominious, opprobrious, shameful dishonorable, dishonourable lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor 2adj not bringing honor and glory some mute inglorious Milton here may rest Syn|Ant obscure, unknown, unsung not famous or acclaimed dishonorable, dishonourablelacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor unknownnot known glorious having or deserving or conferring glory brightsplendid celebrated, historied, storiedhaving an illustrious past divine, elysian, inspiredbeing of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods empyreal, empyrean, sublimeinspiring awe illustrioushaving or conferring glory incandescentcharacterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance lustrousbrilliant knownapprehended with certainty |
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