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demeaned en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Debased; degraded; lowly.
    • Antiope is the more demeaned that she was violated by so outrageous a figure of ribaldry and degradation. 2010, Aida Besancon Spencer, Donna F.G. Hailson, Catherine Clark Kroeger, The Goddess Revival, page 71:
    • One last consolation, however, was left to the casual poor and naturally enough they tended to clutch at it: their women could be more demeaned, more lowly, than they. 1999, Miriam Dixson, The Real Matilda, page 79:
    • Wearing make-up made her feel "very degraded and very demeaned." 2019, Zachary Kramer, Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights, page 20:
  2. Having had the mean subtracted from all values.
    • A demeaned version of this time series x is depicted in ( B ) . 2011, Mario Heiderich, Eduardo Alberto Vela Nava, Gareth Heyes, Web Application Obfuscation, page 93:
    • The 0-crossings in a demeaned signal can indicate the dominant frequency component in a signal. 2006, Wim van Drongelen, Signal Processing for Neuroscientists, page 68:
    • To pursue the analogy between a driftless random walk and a Wiener process a bit further, consider a “demeaned standard random walk" which is constructed from a standard driftless random walk by subtracting the sample mean. 2011, Fumio Hayashi, Econometrics, page 568:

Forms

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most demeaned Degree=Sup lexicographic
more demeaned Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

undemeaned

demeaned en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of demean
    form of demean