Stigma is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STIGMA in dictionary:

VERB:
• A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
• Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
• That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.
• A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.
• A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.
• One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
• One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.
• One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.
• A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.
• Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.
NOUN:
• a mark of disgrace
• a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person
• a visible sign or characteristic of a disease
• a mark or spot on the skin.
• (in a flower) the part of a pistil that receives the pollen during pollination.
• mark of social disgrace
• the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
• a symbol of disgrace or infamy
• an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod
• a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease
• (in Christian tradition) marks corresponding to those left on Christ's body by the Crucifixion, said to have been impressed by divine favour on the bodies of St Francis of Assisi and others.

Words related to STIGMA

stigmas10 stigmata11 stigmatical16

Words that contain STIGMA

stigmal10 stigmas10 stigmata11 stigmatic14 anastigmat13 astigmatic15 stigmarian13 stigmatics15 stigmatise13 stigmatism15 stigmatist13 stigmatize22 stigmatose13 anastigmats14 astigmatics16 astigmatism16 stigmarians14 stigmatical16 stigmatised15 stigmatiser14 stigmatises14 stigmatisms16 stigmatists14 stigmatized24 stigmatizer23 stigmatizes23 anastigmatic17 astigmatisms17 stigmasterol15 stigmatisers15 stigmatising16 stigmatizers24 stigmatizing25 destigmatize25 anastigmatism18 stigmasterols16 stigmatically21 unstigmatised17 unstigmatized26 destigmatized27 destigmatizes26 anastigmatisms19 astigmatically22 stigmatiferous20 stigmatisation17 stigmatization26 stigmatophilia22 destigmatizing28 stigmatisations18 stigmatizations27 stigmatophilias23 stigmatophilist23

How to use STIGMA in a sentence

• The dreadful stories which had been told, ought no more to fix a general stigma upon the planters, than the story of Mrs.
• But it is characteristic of agricultural life that a man with the stigma of penal servitude can return and encounter no overpowering prejudice against him.
• She motioned me away as though she would free herself from whatever stigma my presence might incur.
• The establishment of our Labor Yards will greatly help us in finding work for this class, without branding them with the perpetual stigma of their crime.
• It fastens a stigma on the child to hinder and curse it for life.
• Let their first desire be to show themselves good, useful, hardy, serviceable citizens or subjects, and they will do much to remove the stigma from their profession.
• How the stigma stands out red as blood upon his blanched cheek! Now there is a roar of fire and the flames are bearing down upon her motionless figure.
• Meanwhile the Popes throughout the Renaissance used the imputation of heresy, which never lost its blighting stigma, in the prosecution of their secular ambition.
• We ought not to sit down under a judgment that attaches a stigma of bad faith to us.
• When they attempted to attach to his name the stigma of specific heresies, they failed.
• Had it indeed implied a stigma upon him or the University, the blot would in either case have been effaced by the perfect regularity of his subsequent career.
• The name may, perhaps, have been given to denote the peculiar ferocity of this clan, and to convey a special stigma along with it.
• He demonstrated, however, certain cases in which cross-pollination occurs, that is in which the pollen of another flower of the same species is conveyed to the stigma.
• To sell them publicly would be a stigma both upon my humanity and my credit.
• I would ignore the stigma on the family, I would marry Philip and carry what joy I could to him and his mother.
• One flogging, without the slightest stigma attaching to it, or reprimand, is the certain penalty of failure in his task.
• Fix no stigma upon him, as if he were a tall puppet fit only to trifle, nor let him be regarded as a coward, glad to use any excuse that shall purchase safety.
• They were given the cold shoulder, cut off the visiting-list and made to feel the stigma of disapproval.
• He wishes to remove the stigma from his political brethren, but the idea of denying the imputation does not appear to have entered his mind.
• Vice carries its own stigma, and pure beauty surrounds itself with light.
• In very many other cases, though there be no special mechanical contrivance to prevent the stigma of a flower receiving its own pollen, yet, as C.
• Our stage is now condemned to be fed like a felon from the dungeons, and, like the felon, to feel a stigma in every morsel which it puts between its lips.
• Yet in the growing intelligence of the Chinese a time has come when their rulers feel such discrimination as a stigma.
• IRVING, might otherwise remain as a lasting stigma on their characters.
• He slunk away from them to a corner of the eating-house, feeling the stigma of their contempt, yet afraid to go out into the street where his enemy might be waiting for him.
• The stigma at present attached to sufferers from venereal disease should be transferred to those who indulge in promiscuous sexual intercourse.

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