disgrace
UK/dɪsˈɡɹeɪs//dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/
disgrace noun: the condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
Noun
disgrace (countable and uncountable, plural disgraces)
- The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
- I heare / Macduffe liues in diſgrace. Sir, can you tell / Where he beſtowes himſelfe?c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame.
- Now she lives in disgrace.
- Someone or something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit.
- His behaviour at the party was a total disgrace! He was leeching on all the ladies, and insulting the men.
- Practice and whipping were alike unavailing, and Epps, satisfied of it at last, swore I was a disgrace—that I was not fit to associate with a cotton-picking "nigger"—that I could not pick enough in a day to pay the trouble of weighing it, and that I should go into the cotton field no more.1853, Solomon Northup, chapter XIII, in [David Wilson], editor, Twelve Years a Slave. […], London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.; Auburn, N.Y.: Derby and Miller, →OCLC, page 179
- An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
- As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] downe, if the Affaires require it, and that it may not be done with ſafety ſuddainly, the onely Way is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and Diſgraces, whereby they may not know, what to expect; And be, as it were, in a Wood.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Ambition. XXXVI.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 221
Verb
disgrace (third-person singular simple present disgraces, present participle disgracing, simple past and past participle disgraced)
- To put someone or something out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon.
- […] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv
- Synonyms:
- discredit, disparage, humiliate, abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, defame, degrade, demean
disgrace meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
disgrace in Hindi
- condition of being out of favor
- अपमान apmān
disgrace in Tamil
- state of being dishonored or covered with shame
- அவமானம் avamāṉam, களங்கம் kaḷaṅkam
disgrace in Marathi
- disgrace
- नाचक्की nācakkī
disgrace in Urdu
- condition of being out of favor
- رُسْوائی rusvāī, فَضاحَت fazāhat, بَدْنامی badnāmī, اَپْمان apmān
More languagesFewer languages
- disgrace in Bengali
- অপমান opoman
- disgrace in Telugu
- అవమానించు avamāniñcu
- disgrace in Malayalam
- അപമാനം apamānaṁ, മാനക്കേട് mānakkēṭŭ
- disgrace in Kannada
- ಒಚ್ಚಿ, ಕೆಟ್ಟಹೆಸರು, ಎಗ್ಗು, ಅಪಮಾನ
- disgrace in Punjabi
- ہولا haulā
- disgrace in Gujarati
- ડાઘો ḍāgho
- disgrace in Sanskrit
- अपकीर्ति apakīrti, अकीर्ति akīrti
- disgrace in Arabic
- عَار ʕār, خِزْي ḵizy, خَزًى ḵazan
- disgrace in Vietnamese
- thất sủng
Examples of disgrace in a sentence
- That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.
- The optics are bad: a disgraced prince living in the luxury of a huge crown estate property.
- Every time somebody said “disgraced boy-toy,” we each chugged a 'Gansett.
Synonyms of disgrace
- dishonor
- ignominy
- discredit
- disparage
- humiliate
- abase
- bring down to size
- cut down to size
- defame
- degrade
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Forms of disgrace
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | disgraces |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | disgraces |
| present participle | disgracing |
| past participle | disgraced |
| past | disgraced |
Origin of disgrace
From Middle French disgracier.
Words formed from disgrace
Words that rhyme with disgrace
45 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- embrace
- lace
- replace
- mace
- displace
- bass
- efface
- plaice
- pes
- abase
- debase
- deface
- interlace
- misplace
- retrace
- white space
- bouillabaisse
- dace
- enlace
- grimace
- nominative case
- red in the face
- -ase
- abaisse
- acoustic bass
- aggrace
- Alsace
- apace
- artspace
- encase
- gather pace
- Harbour Grace
- Havre de Grace
- heart of grace
- into space
- Jace
- Jase
- laisse
- misgrace
- Naas
- outpace
- reys
- supplace
- Thrace
- torace
Questions about disgrace
- What does disgrace mean?
- Disgrace means the condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
- What is disgrace in Hindi?
- Disgrace in Hindi is अपमान (apmān). See Disgrace meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is disgrace?
- Disgrace can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce disgrace?
- Disgrace is pronounced /dɪsˈɡɹeɪs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of disgrace?
- The plural of disgrace is disgraces.
Words near disgrace in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disgrace (page history and authors); नाचक्की (Marathi) (page history and authors); disgrace (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ہولا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ડાઘો (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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