degraded
Definition
- Adjective:
- Lowered in quality, value, or character: Describes something that has been reduced from a higher or better state to a lower one, often in terms of moral standing, purity, or condition.
- Morally corrupt or debased: Refers to a person or their behavior that is considered dissolute, depraved, or having abandoned proper moral restraints.
Usage and Examples
- Describing a lowered state or value:
- The degraded soil could no longer support crops.
- Exposure to sunlight caused the degraded quality of the painting.
- Describing moral corruption:
- He lived a degraded life, consumed by vice.
- The novel portrays a degraded aristocracy obsessed with pleasure.
Advanced Usage
- In environmental or technical contexts: Often used to describe ecosystems, materials, or data that have deteriorated.
- The degraded habitat threatened the survival of the species.
- The signal was too degraded to understand the transmission.
- As a predicate adjective: Commonly follows linking verbs like , , .
- She felt degraded by the humiliating experience.
Variants and Related Words
- Degrade (verb): To lower in quality, rank, or character; to cause deterioration.
- Pollution can degrade water quality.
- Degradation (noun): The process of being degraded or the state of having been degraded.
- The degradation of the old neighborhood was sad to see.
- Degrading (adjective): Causing a loss of self-respect; humiliating.
- He refused to do the degrading work.
Synonyms
- Debased: Reduced in quality or value.
- Dissipated: Overindulgent in sensual pleasures.
- Depraved: Morally corrupt; wicked.
- Deteriorated: Become worse in condition.
Antonyms
- Elevated: Raised in rank, status, or moral character.
- Honorable: Deserving respect and admiration.
- Pure: Not spoiled or corrupted.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- To feel degraded: To experience a strong sense of humiliation or loss of dignity.
- After the public reprimand, he felt completely degraded.
- A degraded state: A condition of decline or corruption.
- The once-grand palace was now in a degraded state.
Adjective
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lowered in value
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the dollar is low
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a debased currency
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unrestrained by convention or morality
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Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
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deplorably dissipated and degraded
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riotous living
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fast women
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