Notorious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous: a notorious gangster; a district notorious for vice.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Generally known and talked of by the public; universally believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Publicly or generally known and spoken of; manifest to the world: in this sense generally used predicatively: when used attributively, the word now commonly implies some circumstance of disadvantage or discredit; hence, notable in a bad sense; widely or well but not favorably known.
  • Synonyms Noted, Notable, etc. (see famous); patent, manifest, evident.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. known widely and usually unfavorably
    • Equivalent
    disreputable   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    famous    remarkable    celebrated    noted    renowned   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    glorious    inglorious    laborious    meritorious    victorious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    infamous    famous    vile    wicked    petty   
     
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