Synonyms of the word disgrace


DISGRACEABASE - ATTAINT - BELITTLE - CHAGRIN - DEGRADE - DEMEAN - DISCREDIT - DISHONOR - DISHONOUR - DISPARAGE - HUMBLE - HUMILIATE - IGNOMINY - MORTIFY - SHAME

disgrace

  • n. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
  • n. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
  • n. Something which brings dishonor; the cause of shame or reproach; great discredit.
  • n. (obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
  • v. To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.

abase

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down.
  • v. (transitive) To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.

attaint

  • adj. (obsolete) Convicted, attainted.
  • adj. (obsolete) Attainted; corrupted.
  • v. (archaic) To subject to attainder; to condemn (someone) to death and extinction of all civil rights.
  • v. (archaic) To subject to calumny; to accuse of a crime or dishonour.
  • v. (now rare) To taint; to corrupt, sully.
  • n. (archaic) A blow or strike, especially in jousting.
  • n. A wound on the leg of a horse caused by a blow.
  • n. (obsolete, law) The giving of a false verdict by a jury; the conviction of such a jury, and the reversal…

belittle

  • v. To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.

chagrin

  • n. Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or…
  • n. A type of leather or skin with a rough surface.
  • v. (transitive) To bother or vex; to mortify.
  • v. (intransitive) To be vexed or annoyed.

degrade

  • v. (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
  • v. (intransitive) To reduce in quality or purity.
  • v. (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

demean

  • v. To debase; to lower; to degrade.
  • v. To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
  • v. To mortify.
  • v. To manage; to conduct; to treat.
  • v. To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
  • n. (archaic) Management; treatment.
  • n. (archaic) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
  • n. demesne.
  • n. resources; means.

discredit

  • v. (transitive) To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false…
  • n. The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved.
  • n. A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.

dishonor

  • n. US standard spelling of dishonour.
  • v. US standard spelling of dishonour.

dishonour

  • n. Shame or disgrace.
  • n. Lack of honour or integrity.
  • n. (law) Failure or refusal of the drawee or intended acceptor of a negotiable instrument, such as a bill…
  • v. To bring disgrace upon someone or something; to shame.
  • v. To refuse to accept something, such as a cheque; to not honor.
  • v. To violate or rape.

disparage

  • n. (obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
  • v. To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
  • v. To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words;…
  • v. To ridicule, mock, discredit.

humble

  • adj. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
  • adj. Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
  • v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
  • v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of;…
  • adj. hornless.

humiliate

  • v. (transitive) To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

ignominy

  • n. Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.

mortify

  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
  • v. (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
  • v. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
  • v. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
  • v. (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
  • v. (Scotland, law, historical) To grant in mortmain.

shame

  • n. Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of impropriety, dishonor, or other…
  • n. Something to regret.
  • n. Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
  • n. The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
  • n. That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
  • interj. A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
  • interj. (South Africa) Expressing sympathy.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To feel shame, be ashamed.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
  • v. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
  • v. (obsolete) To mock at; to deride.

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