depraved en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /dɪˈpɹeɪvd/ (UK)
Meanings
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Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
a depraved killer
The driver who speeds with reckless disregard for the consequences to others but without any intent to harm the darting child may receive jail time but is often treated far differently from the depraved killer who sets out with a purposeful plan to murder the child.
2009, Neil M. Gorsuch, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, page 57:
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Violating principles of rectitude or given standards of decency.
I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.
Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of MosesYou are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch
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(archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]
1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence:There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]
1916, Veterinary Medicine, volume 11, page 759:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most depraved | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more depraved | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
depraved-heart murder · depraved-indifference murder · depravedly · undepraved · depravedness
Relateds
Translations (22)
vi đồi trụy (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · sv depraverad (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · nb fordervet (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · mi hīkaka (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · ota آزغین (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · fi kieroutunut (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · da moralsk fordærvet (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · el διεφθαρμένος (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · es depravado (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · fr dépravé (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · th เลวทราม (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · ja 堕落 (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · da depraveret (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · nl verdorven (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · ta மோசமான (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · fi turmeltunut (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · ko 타락한 (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · cs neřestný (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · de verdorben (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · ota اكری (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · pt depravado (extremely wrong in a moral sense) · cmn 堕落的 (extremely wrong in a moral sense)