Dictionary Entry
infamous
infamous is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer.
- 2adjective
Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption.
- 3adjective
Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
- 4adjective
Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous.
- 5adjective
known widely and usually unfavorably
"a notorious gangster"
"the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"
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