illustrious
adjective
highly distinguished; renowned; famous.
unillustrious
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a word derived from
illustrious.
Example Sentences
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Up the staircase leading to the famous dining-hall many illustrious men, as yet unillustrious, had passed with firm and confident step.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
Though earnest and industrious, I still am unillustrious; No papers empty purses Printing verses Such as mine.
From Something Else Again by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams
What I do not remember, except from having it very often repeated to me, is what may be considered the only 'clever' thing that I said during an otherwise unillustrious childhood.
From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Edmund Gosse
