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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Notorious \No*to"ri*ous\, adjective [L. notorius pointing out, making known, fr. noscere, notum, to known: cf. F. notoire. See {Know}.] Generally known and talked of by the public; universally believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice.
Your goodness, Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious. --Shak.
Syn: Distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; celebrated; noted; famous; renowned. -- {No*to"ri*ous*ly}, adverb -- {No*to"ri*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
notorious
adjective: having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice" [syn: {ill-famed}, {infamous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
164 Moby Thesaurus words for "notorious": 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
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