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degraded

/dɪˈɡɹeɪdɪd/US/dɪˈɡɹeɪdɪd/

degraded adjective: feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect. Also the simple past and past participle of degrade.

degraded: feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect
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Adjective

degraded (comparative more degraded, superlative most degraded)

  1. Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
    • The Netherlands […] were reduced, practically, to a very degraded condition.1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    humiliated
  2. Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
    • The Grapsoid species are represented of a degraded form in Porcellana1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea
  3. (not comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
    • A Cross degraded Fitchee.1725, A New Dictionary of Heraldry ... Illustrated with 196 devices on copper ... Revis'd and corrected, with a letter to the publisher, by Mr. James Coates, page 98
    • Ar. a cross, degraded, sa.1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 168
  4. Having a loss of capability or function. Having undergone deterioration, degradation.
    Synonyms:
    degd

Also used as

degraded is also the simple past and past participle of degrade.

degraded meaning in Telugu

degraded in Telugu

అధోకరణం చెందింది, అధోకరణం చెందాడు, అధోకరణం చెందుతుంది

Examples of degraded in a sentence

  • Aged and degraded oil and grease can really gum up the works.
  • Or had the combination of Category 5 winds and overtourism left behind a degraded Eden?
  • We applied abliteration to Daredevil-8B to uncensor it, which also degraded the model's performance.

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Synonyms of degraded

Forms of degraded

comparativemore degraded
superlativemost degraded

Origin of degraded

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

Words formed from degraded

Phrases with degraded

Questions about degraded

What does degraded mean?
Degraded means feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
What is degraded in Telugu?
Degraded in Telugu is అధోకరణం చెందింది, అధోకరణం చెందాడు, అధోకరణం చెందుతుంది. See Degraded meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is degraded?
Degraded is an adjective.
How do you pronounce degraded?
Degraded is pronounced /dɪˈɡɹeɪdɪd/ (UK).

Words near degraded in the dictionary

  1. degradations
  2. degradative
  3. degradatory
  4. degrade
  5. degrade gracefully
  6. degraded
  7. degraded gracefully
  8. degradedly
  9. degradedness
  10. degradee
  11. degradees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: degraded (page history and authors); degraded (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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