famous

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

known and recognized by many people
famousShe went from poor and anonymous to rich and famous.
well knownShe's a well-known artist.
renownedThe area is renowned for its beauty.
world-famousThey stayed in a world-famous hotel.
celebratedHe's a celebrated writer of children's stories.
legendaryHe once met the legendary singer, Eartha Kitt.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fame and famous
A-list
A-lister
acclaimed
annal
anyone
catapult
fore
go down in the annalsidiom
high-profile
hit the headlinesidiom
household word
legend
name
notoriety
notorious
notoriously
overexposed
world-famous
world-renowned
Z-list

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Reputation

infamous | American Dictionary

infamous
adjective
us/ˈɪn·fə·məs/
well known for something bad; notorious:
He is infamous for saying that cheating is the way the game is played.

infamy

noun[ U ]us/ˈɪn·fə·mi/
Franklin Roosevelt spoke of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor as “a day that will live in infamy.”

Examples of infamous

infamous
It is this infamous notion of the ' abandonment ' of older people by their families that has been prominent in the western gerontological debate.
The album was also re-mixed for quadraphonic stereo, the now infamous sound system that was then just being introduced.
Questions have arisen during the past century about postmortem disclosure of information about powerful and famous (but not so much about infamous) people.
Numerous solutions to this now infamous problem have been proposed.
Can an infamous person obtain, or a person become infamous retain, a degree?
Celebrity connotes someone that is widely recognised and famous or infamous.
This point can be demonstrated by an analysis of a third juba'ing, one that is somewhat infamous.
From out of all these details emerges a fascinating study of how the infamous ability of bureaucracies to oppose, even defeat, change actually works.
To adapt an infamous military euphemism, performers came to constitute collateral information.
The monomorphism restriction, already infamous, forces a somewhat artificial style in this setting.
The infamous information in the nature of quo warranto presented possibilities, but this apparently made crown lawyers nervous before the 1680s.
The story remains infamous as one of the most dramatic turning points in all of music history.
No; but some things once thought infamous may no longer be so.
The overall approach espoused by these authors suggests a new perspective on the infamous critical period of language learning.
First to go was the infamous eight-legged essay, which was abolished as an examination subject in 1901.
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