Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
2. (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
3. (heraldry, 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.
5. simple past and past participle of degrade

Example Sentences

The Netherlands […] were reduced, practically, to a very degraded condition.

The Grapsoid species are represented of a degraded form in Porcellana

A Cross degraded Fitchee.

Ar. a cross, degraded, sa.

Argent, a cross degraded and conjoined, (or issuing from eight degrees,) sable. WYNT-WORTH.

Word Forms

• more degraded
• most degraded

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Use degraded when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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