demeaned
demeaned adjective: debased; degraded; lowly. Also the simple past and past participle of demean.
Adjective
demeaned (comparative more demeaned, superlative most demeaned)
- 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
- 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
| comparative | more demeaned |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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
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