'Debased' definitions:
Definition of 'debased'
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Definition of 'Debased'
From: GCIDE
- Debase \De*base"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Debased; p. pr. & vb. n. Debasing.] [Pref. de- + base. See Base, a., and cf. Abase.] To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. [1913 Webster]
- The coin which was adulterated and debased. --Hale. [1913 Webster]
- It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. --Pope.
- Syn: To abase; degrade. See Abase. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Debased'
From: GCIDE
- Debased \De*based"\, a. (Her.) Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'debased'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- abject,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- base,
- beggarly,
- cheesy,
- contaminated,
- contemptible,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- couchant,
- crouched,
- crummy,
- debauched,
- decadent,
- degenerate,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- depressed,
- despicable,
- deteriorated,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- dissolute,
- downcast,
- downthrown,
- execrable,
- fallen,
- flagrant,
- flat,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- gross,
- heinous,
- knee-high,
- knocked flat,
- laid low,
- little,
- low,
- low-built,
- low-down,
- low-hung,
- low-level,
- low-leveled,
- low-lying,
- low-set,
- low-statured,
- lowered,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- mean,
- measly,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- morally polluted,
- neap,
- nefarious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- paltry,
- perverted,
- petty,
- poky,
- polluted,
- poor,
- profligate,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- rank,
- recumbent,
- reduced,
- reprobate,
- reptilian,
- rotten,
- runty,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- short,
- small,
- squalid,
- squat,
- squatty,
- steeped in iniquity,
- stooped,
- stumpy,
- submerged,
- sunk,
- sunken,
- supine,
- tainted,
- unelevated,
- unmentionable,
- vice-corrupted,
- vile,
- vitiate,
- vitiated,
- warped,
- wretched