Notorious

Adjective

 * 1) Widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.
 * 2) * 1920: "This is the last straw. In your infatuation for this man — a man who is notorious for his excesses, a man your father would not have allowed to so much as mention your name — you have reflected the demi-monde rather than the circles in which you have presumably grown up." &mdash; The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * 3) * 1999: "The Hempshocks' sheep were notoriously the finest for miles around: shaggy-coated and intelligent (for sheep), with curling horns and sharp hooves." &mdash; Neil Gaiman, Stardust, pg. 30 (2001 Perennial edition)

Synonyms

 * ill-famed
 * infamous

Related terms

 * notoriety
 * notoriousness

Adverbs for Notorious
nationally; generally; locally; unhappily; illustriously; shamefully; brilliantly; eminently; disgracefully; egregiously; splendidly; magnificently; universally; politically; infamously

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
First attested 1548, from notorius:, from  notus:, perfect passive participle of nosco:. Negative sense appeared in seventeenth century.

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Translations

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 * Dutch:, , notoir
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 * Greek: διαβόητος
 * Italian:
 * Spanish: de mala fama