Reprobate

Quick meaning: Reprobate is an adjective meaning Rejected by God; damned, sinful.

Meaning

Rejected by God; damned, sinful.

More Meanings

1. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
2. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
3. A person with low morals or principles.
4. To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
5. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
6. To refuse, set aside.
7. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.

Example Sentences

The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.

I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

Word Forms

• reprobates
• reprobating
• reprobated

Synonyms for reprobate

Depending on context, synonyms include castoff, discarded, forcasten, ever-damned, goddamned, hellbound.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include miscreant, immoral, depraved, perverted, perverse, corrupt.

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