Definition of Inglorious

In`glo´ri`ous
a.1.
1.Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease.
My next desire is, void of care and strife,
To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life.
- Dryden.
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest.
- Gray.
2.Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc.
Inglorious shelter in an alien land.
- J. Philips.


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derogatory, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, ignoble, ignominious, ignotus, infamous, innocuous, least, little known, low, lowest, lowliest, lowly, mean, modest, nameless, no credit to, notorious, obscure, plain, poor, renownless, seamy, shabby, shady, shameful, shoddy, simple, small, sordid, teachable, uncelebrated, undistinguished, unfamed, unglorified, unheard-of, unhonored, unimportant, unknown, unnotable, unnoted, unnoticed, unpopular, unpraiseworthy, unpretentious, unremarked, unrenowned, unrespectable, unsavory, unsung


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