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- Dictionarydegraded/dɪˈɡreɪdɪd/
adjective
- 1. treated or regarded with contempt or disrespect: "she had felt cheap and degraded" Similar Opposite
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to spoil or destroy the beauty or quality of something: Every day the environment is further degraded by toxic wastes. [ I or T ] electronics specialized. If the quality of something electrical or electronic degrades or is degraded, it becomes less good or less correct. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. degrade verb (CHANGE STRUCTURE)
1. : reduced far below ordinary standards of civilized life and conduct. 2. : characterized by degeneration of structure or function. degradedly adverb. Synonyms. corrupt. debased. debauched. decadent. degenerate. demoralized. depraved. dissipated. dissolute. jackleg. libertine. loose. perverse. perverted. rakehelly. rakish. reprobate. sick.
to spoil or destroy the beauty or quality of something: Every day the environment is further degraded by toxic wastes. [ I or T ] electronics specialized. If the quality of something electrical or electronic degrades or is degraded, it becomes less good or less correct. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. degrade verb (CHANGE STRUCTURE)
a. : to bring to low esteem or into disrepute. Their actions have degraded their profession. comments intended to humiliate and degrade others. b. : to drag down in moral or intellectual character : corrupt. … impelled, by misfortune and misery, to the vice that has degraded them. Charles Dickens. 3. : to impair in respect to some physical property
to spoil or destroy the beauty or quality of something: Every day the environment is further degraded by toxic wastes. [ I or T ] electronics specialized. If the quality of something electrical or electronic degrades or is degraded, it becomes less good or less correct. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Define degraded. degraded synonyms, degraded pronunciation, degraded translation, English dictionary definition of degraded. adj. 1. Reduced in rank, dignity, or esteem. 2. Having been corrupted or depraved. 3. Having been reduced in quality or value. de·grad′ed·ly adv....
to reduce (someone) to a lower rank, degree, etc.; deprive of office, rank, status, or title, especially as a punishment: degraded from director to assistant director. Synonyms: break, cashier, lower, downgrade, depose, demote. Antonyms: promote. to reduce in amount, strength, intensity, etc.
Definitions of 'degrade' 1. Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them. [...] 2. To degrade something means to cause it to get worse. [formal] [...] More. Conjugations of 'degrade' present simple: I degrade, you degrade [...] past simple: I degraded, you degraded [...] past participle: degraded. More.
Degraded definition: reduced in rank, position, reputation, etc.. See examples of DEGRADED used in a sentence.
adjective. 1. reduced in rank, position, reputation, etc. He felt degraded by the trivial tasks assigned to him. 2. reduced in quality or value; debased; vulgarized. the degraded level of the modern novel. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
