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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪɡˈnəʊbəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ɪɡˈnoʊbəl/
• 韻: -əʊbəl

形容詞

ignoble (comparative ignobler, superlative ignoblest)

1. Not noble; plebeian; common.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     I was not ignoble of descent.

2. Not honorable; base.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

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

   • 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC:

     far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife

3. Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.
4. (chemistry) Of an element, dangerously reactive.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ignoble.

同意語

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

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “common”): noble
• (antonym(s) of “not honorable”): noble, honorable

派生語

• ignobility
• ignobleness
• ignobly

動詞

ignoble (third-person singular simple present ignobles, present participle ignobling, simple past and past participle ignobled)

1. To make ignoble; to bring low.

アナグラム

• Gobelin, gobline, inglobe