Usually means: Famous for a negative reason.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. notorious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. notorious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. notorious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. notorious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. notorious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Notorious, notorious: Wordnik
  7. notorious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. notorious: Wiktionary
  9. notorious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. notorious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. notorious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. notorious: Dictionary.com
  13. notorious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. notorious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Notorious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. notorious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. notorious: Rhymezone
  19. Notorious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. notorious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. notorious: Free Dictionary
  22. notorious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. notorious: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Notorious (disambiguation), Notorious (film), Notorious (movie), notorious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. notorious: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. notorious: A Word A Day

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Senses with an unfavourable connotation.
adjective:  Of a person or entity: generally or widely known for something negative; infamous.
adjective:  Of an act, situation, etc.: blameworthy in an obvious and offensive way; blatant, flagrant.
adjective:  Senses with a favourable or neutral connotation.
adjective:  Generally or widely known; of common knowledge; famous or well-known.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Clear, evident, obvious.
adjective:  Generally or widely knowable.
adverb:  (obsolete) Synonym of notoriously

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