Usually means: Loss of dignity or respect.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word indignity:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. indignity: Merriam-Webster
  2. indignity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. indignity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. indignity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. indignity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Indignity, indignity: Wordnik
  7. indignity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. indignity: Wiktionary
  9. indignity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. indignity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. indignity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. indignity: Dictionary.com
  13. indignity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Indignity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. indignity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. indignity: Rhymezone
  17. Indignity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. indignity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. indignity: FreeDictionary.org
  20. indignity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. indignity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. indignity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. indignity: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. indignity: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. indignity: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  degradation, debasement or humiliation
▸ noun:  an affront to one's dignity or pride

Similar:
dishonour, ignominy, humiliating, disgrace, villainy, opprobrium, displeasure, embarrassment, shame, ignominity, more...

Opposite:
dignity, respect, honor

Types:
insult, affront, slight, dishonor, humiliation, offense, more...

Phrases:
small indignity, an undeserved indignity, more...

Adjectives:
such, final, great, personal, last, ultimate, further, gross, much, utmost, possible

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Similar:
dishonour, ignominy, humiliating, disgrace, villainy, opprobrium, displeasure, embarrassment, shame, ignominity, more...

Opposite:
dignity, respect, honor

Types:
insult, affront, slight, dishonor, humiliation, offense, more...

Phrases:
small indignity, an undeserved indignity, more...

Adjectives:
such, final, great, personal, last, ultimate, further, gross, much, utmost, possible

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark red,     maroon,     charcoal, more...



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