degraded

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degraded

The dollar has degraded in value over the past year.

Definition
  1. 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.
degraded

The dollar has degraded in value over the past year.

Adjective
  1. lowered in value
    • the dollar is low
    • a debased currency
  2. unrestrained by convention or morality
    • Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
    • deplorably dissipated and degraded
    • riotous living
    • fast women

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