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demeaned

demeaned adjective: debased; degraded; lowly. Also the simple past and past participle of demean.

Adjective

demeaned (comparative more demeaned, superlative most demeaned)

  1. Debased; degraded; lowly.
    • One last consolation, however, was left to the casual poor and naturally enough they tended to clutch at it: their women could be more demeaned, more lowly, than they.1999, Miriam Dixson, The Real Matilda, page 79
    • Antiope is the more demeaned that she was violated by so outrageous a figure of ribaldry and degradation.2010, Aida Besancon Spencer, Donna F.G. Hailson, Catherine Clark Kroeger, The Goddess Revival, page 71
  2. Having had the mean subtracted from all values.
    • The 0-crossings in a demeaned signal can indicate the dominant frequency component in a signal.2006, Wim van Drongelen, Signal Processing for Neuroscientists, page 68
    • A demeaned version of this time series x is depicted in ( B ) .2011, Mario Heiderich, Eduardo Alberto Vela Nava, Gareth Heyes, Web Application Obfuscation, page 93

Also used as

demeaned is also the simple past and past participle of demean.

Forms of demeaned

comparativemore demeaned
superlativemost demeaned

Words formed from demeaned

Questions about demeaned

What does demeaned mean?
Demeaned means debased; degraded; lowly.
What part of speech is demeaned?
Demeaned is an adjective.

Words near demeaned in the dictionary

  1. demcizumab
  2. deme
  3. demean
  4. demeanance
  5. demeane
  6. demeaned
  7. demeaner
  8. demeaners
  9. demeanes
  10. demeanest
  11. demeaneth

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