Meaning

4 senses
  1. Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.

  2. Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.

  3. (not comparable)Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.

  4. Having a loss of capability or function. Having undergone deterioration, degradation.

More definitions
  • lowered in value
  • unrestrained by convention or morality

Origin

degrade + -ed. See degrade and compare French degré (“step”).

degrade + -ed. See degrade and compare French degré (“step”).

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Forms

more degraded, most degraded
Comparativemore degraded Lesson
Superlativemost degraded Lesson

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
deprived of dignity:humiliated
deterioration:degd
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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