INGLORIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inglorious mean? 

• INGLORIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective INGLORIOUS has 2 senses:

1. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

2. not bringing honor and glory

  Familiarity information: INGLORIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INGLORIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

Synonyms:

black; disgraceful; ignominious; inglorious; opprobrious; shameful

Context example:

a shameful display of cowardice

Similar:

dishonorable; dishonourable (lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not bringing honor and glory

Context example:

some mute inglorious Milton here may rest

Similar:

obscure; unknown; unsung (not famous or acclaimed)

Also:

dishonorable; dishonourable (lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor)

unknown (not known)

Antonym:

glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)

 Context examples 

The flood of fight ebbed down in him, and, releasing his prey, he turned tail and scampered on across the open in inglorious retreat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And White Fang, resurrecting quite a deal of the old awe, seemed to wilt and to shrink in upon himself and grow small, as he cast about in his mind for a way to beat a retreat not too inglorious.

(White Fang, by Jack London)