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UNDIGNIFIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does undignified mean?
• UNDIGNIFIED (adjective)
The adjective UNDIGNIFIED has 1 sense:
1. lacking dignity
Familiarity information: UNDIGNIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking dignity
Similar:
demeaning; humbling; humiliating; mortifying (causing awareness of your shortcomings)
infra dig (beneath your dignity)
pathetic; ridiculous; silly (inspiring scornful pity)
Also:
discomposed (having your composure disturbed)
inelegant (lacking in refinement or grace or good taste)
Antonym:
dignified (having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance)
Context examples
The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Instead of which, that undignified creature answered, with an irrepressible sob, "Because you are going away."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I would still be merrily disposed at times; and as my pleasures were (to say the least) undignified, and I was not only well known and highly considered, but growing towards the elderly man, this incoherency of my life was daily growing more unwelcome.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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