Associations to the word «Ignoble»

Wiktionary

IGNOBLE, adjective. Not noble; plebeian; common.
IGNOBLE, adjective. Not honorable; base.
IGNOBLE, adjective. Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.

Dictionary definition

IGNOBLE, adjective. Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr..
IGNOBLE, adjective. Not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King