infamous

Signification (Anglais)

1. Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.
2. Causing infamy; disgraceful.
3. (UK, historical) Subject to a judicial punishment depriving (the person) of certain rights (e.g. the rights to hold public office, exercise the franchise, receive a public pension, serve on a jury, or give testimony in a court of law).
4. (archaic) Punishable by death or imprisonment.

Concepts

infâme

mal famé

fameux

ignoble

infamant

notoire

abominable

Synonymes

notorious

shameful

disgraceful

dishonorable

disreputable

inglorious

ignominious

indecent

ill-famed

vile

depraved

foul

scandalous

rascally

ridiculous

rogue

scoundrel

scurrilous

scurvy

villainous

well-known

wicked

notoriously disgraced

contemptible

scurrile

coward

defamed

discreditable

dishonest

dishonourable

flagitious

knavish

mean

miscreant

nameless

opprobrious

profligate

Traductions

infame

infame

infame

berüchtigt

schändlich

kepaze

infam

rezil

anrüchig

κακόφημος

ayıp

nefando

berucht

διαβόητος

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɪnfəməs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: enfamouse

In summary

From Middle English enfamouse, in-fames, infamous, from Medieval Latin īnfāmōsus, from Latin īnfāmis; by surface analysis, in- + famous. Displaced native Old English unhlīsful.