notorious

3 definitions found

notorious - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Notorious \No*to"ri*ous\, a. [L. notorius pointing out, making
     known, fr. noscere, notum, to known: cf. F. notoire. See
     Know.]
     Generally known and talked of by the public; universally
     believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; --
     usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a
     notorious crime or vice.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Your goodness,
           Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; celebrated;
          noted; famous; renowned.
          [1913 Webster] -- No*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. --
          No*to"ri*ous*ness, n.
          [1913 Webster]

notorious - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  notorious
      adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious
             gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for
             vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed,
             infamous, notorious]

notorious - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  164 Moby Thesaurus words for "notorious":
     abominable, acclaimed, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly,
     beneath contempt, blackguardly, blameworthy, blatant, bold, brazen,
     brazenfaced, brutal, celebrated, common, commonly known,
     commonplace, conspicuous, contemptible, current, degraded,
     deplorable, derogatory, despicable, detestable, dire,
     discreditable, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable,
     distinguished, dreadful, egregious, embarrassing, enormous,
     exhibitionistic, fabled, famed, familiar, famous, far-famed,
     far-heard, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forward, foul, fulsome,
     glaring, grievous, gross, hackneyed, hanging out, hateful, heinous,
     honored, horrible, horrid, household, ignoble, ignominious,
     immodest, in relief, in the foreground, infamous, inglorious,
     knavish, lamentable, leading, legendary, loathsome, lousy, marked,
     memorable, monstrous, much acclaimed, mythical, nasty, naughty,
     nefarious, noisome, notable, noted, noticeable, obnoxious,
     obtrusive, odious, of mark, of note, offensive, opprobrious,
     ostensible, outrageous, outstanding, pitiable, pitiful,
     platitudinous, popular, prominent, pronounced, proverbial, public,
     rank, rascally, recreant, regrettable, renowned, reprehensible,
     reprobate, repulsive, roguish, rotten, sad, salient, scampish,
     scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly, scurvy, seamy, shabby, shady,
     shameful, shameless, shaming, shocking, shoddy, sordid, squalid,
     staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, talked-about,
     talked-of, terrible, too bad, trite, truistic, unabashed,
     unashamed, unblushing, unclean, unembarrassed,
     universally admitted, universally recognized, unmodest,
     unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, vile, villainous,
     well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood,
     widely known, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched