Usually means: Well-known for a bad reason.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word infamous:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. infamous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. infamous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. infamous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. infamous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. infamous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Infamous, infamous: Wordnik
  7. infamous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. infamous: Wiktionary
  9. infamous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. infamous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. infamous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. infamous: Dictionary.com
  13. infamous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. infamous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. InFAMOUS, Infamous (Abandon All Ships album), Infamous (Motionless in White album), Infamous (TV series), Infamous (comics), Infamous (film), Infamous (producer), Infamous (series), Infamous (video game), Infamous (video game series), Infamous, The Infamous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Infamous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. infamous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. infamous: Rhymezone
  19. infamous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. infamous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. infamous: Free Dictionary
  22. infamous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. infamous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. infamous: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. infamous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Infamous (disambiguation), Infamous (game), Infamous (video game), infamous: Legal dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Infamous (disambiguation), Infamous (game), Infamous (video game), infamous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Infamous: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See infamously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.
adjective:  Causing infamy; disgraceful.
adjective:  (UK, historical) Subject to a judicial punishment that deprived the infamous person of certain rights; this included a prohibition against holding public office, exercising the franchise, receiving a public pension, serving on a jury, or giving testimony in a court of law.

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