Word Meanings - DEGRADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts. Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons. Dana. 3. Etym: (more info) 1. Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low;

Additional info about word: DEGRADED

Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts. Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons. Dana. 3. Etym: (more info) 1. Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base. The Netherlands . . . were reduced practically to a very degraded condition. Motley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEGRADED)

• Abject
• Degraded
• outcast
• miserable
• vile
• pitiable
• worthless
• despicable
• groveling
• fawning
• squalid
• base-minded
• slavish
• beggarly
• servile
• cringing
• low
• wretched
• sordid
• Low
• Abated
• sunk
• depressed
• stunted
• declining
• deep
• subsided
• inaudible
• cheap
• gentle
• dejected
• degraded
• mean
• abject
• base
• unworthy
• lowly
• feeble
• moderate
• frugal
• reprieved
• subdued
• reduced
• poor
• Vile
• Cheap
• worthier
• valueless
• hateful
• bad
• impure
• vicious
• abandoned
• sinful
• ignoble
• wicked
• villainous

Related words: (words related to DEGRADED)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• SQUALIDLY
  In a squalid manner.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• ABATVOIX
  The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• FAWN
  A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SQUALIDNESS
  Quality or state of being squalid.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• BRUNSWICK GREEN
  An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
• BAILIWICK
  The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
• RABATINE
  A collar or cape. Sir W. Scott.