See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
See eatable.
See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
See elaborate.
See elective.
See elusive.
See emotional.
See emphatic. See employable.
See employable.
See endurable.
See -English.
See entire.
See enviable.
See envious.
See episcopal.
See equable.
See errable.
See escapable.
See evangelical.
See eventful.
See evident.
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See exclusive.
See exemplary.
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See exhaustible.
See existent.
See expectable.
See expectant.
See explainable.
See express.
See expressible.
See expugnable.
See extinct.
See factious.
See fadable.
See fain.
See familiar.
See famous.
See fashionable.
See fast.
See fatherly.
See fathomable.
See faulty.
See fearful.
See feasible.
See felicitous.
See felt.
See feminine.
See fermentable.
See festival.
See fine.
See fleshy.
See fluent.
See forcible.
See fordable.
See foreknowable.
See foreseeable.
See forgetful.
See forgivable.
See formal.
See framable.
See fraternal.
See friable.
See frightful.
See frustrable.
See full.
See gainable.
See gainful.
See gallant.
See genial.
See genteel.
See gentle.
See gentlemanlike.
See gentlemanly.
See geometrical.
See ghostly.
See glad.
See godlike.
See good.
See goodly.
See gorgeous.
See grammatical.
See grave.
See guidable.
See guilty.
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See habitable.
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See handy.
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[ 1913 Webster ]

[ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + famous: cf. L. infamis. See Infamy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. “Infamous woods.” P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The piny shade
More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. Dryden.

Syn. -- Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile; shameful; ignominious. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being infamous; infamy. [ 1913 Webster ]