degraded

Meaning

Adj

1. Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
2. Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
3. (not-comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
4. Having a loss of capability or function. Having undergone deterioration, degradation.

Verb

simple past and past participle of degrade

degrade

1. (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
2. (ergative, intransitive) To reduce in quality or purity.
3. (transitive) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

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Synonyms

debased

libertine

dissolute

profligate

riotous

dissipated

devalued

degenerate

fast

despised

outcast

low

debauched

inferior

dishonoured

hopeless

humiliated

immoral

lowered

mean

menial

servile

slighted

sordid

squalid

wicked

wretched

bad

👎

treated with contempt

cast down

censured

decadent

degenerated

degenerating

degradation

degrade

descendant

descending

deteriorating

dislodged

displaced

excommunicated

grovelling

Translations

inhonestus

منحط

llicenciós

degradat

degenerat

viciós

abjecte

dissolut

abgesetzt

degradierte

ταπεινωτικός

dissolu

jeûner

libertin

مذلّ

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈɡɹeɪdəd/

Etymology

Cognate with French: degré

In summary

degrade + -ed. See degrade and compare French degré (“step”).