reprobate
/ˈɹɛpɹəbət/
reprobate adjective: rejected; cast off as worthless.
Adjective
reprobate (comparative more reprobate, superlative most reprobate)
- Rejected; cast off as worthless.
- Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 6:30
- Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
- Synonyms:
- ever-damned, goddamned, hellbound, damned, deityforsaken, deuced, godforsaken, tormented
- Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
- The reprobate criminal sneered at me.
- And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- Synonyms:
- dissolute, licentious, profligate, aberrant, corrupt, corrupted, depraved, lost, dirty-handed, effete
Noun
reprobate (plural reprobates)
- One rejected by God; a sinful person.
- And the solitarines of man, which God had namely and principally orderd to prevent by mariage, hath no remedy, but lies under a worse condition then the loneliest single life; for in single life the absence and remotenes of a helper might inure him to expect his own comforts out of himselfe, or to...1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- Synonyms:
- icchantika, anathema
- A person with low morals or principles.
- I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.c. 1603, Walter Raleigh, Apology for the Voyage to Guiana
- [T]he young sinner took leave of Pen, and the club of the elder criminals, and sauntered into Blacquiere’s, an adjacent establishment, frequented by reprobates of his own age.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
Verb
IPA/ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/
reprobate (third-person singular simple present reprobates, present participle reprobating, simple past and past participle reprobated)
- To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
- Lord Rotheles allowed it was a very sufficient cause for returning soon, and reprobated all delays of letters, though he confessed to being a very idle correspondent;...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 274
- Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
- To refuse, set aside.
reprobate meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
reprobate in Urdu
- گمراہ, ناکام, نیچ, تباہ
reprobate in Bengali
- অশ্লীল, অনৈতিক ব্যক্তি
reprobate in Malayalam
- reprobate
- തെമ്മാടി temmāṭi
reprobate in Kannada
- ಭ್ರಷ್ಟ, ದುರಾಚಾರಿ, ನೀಚ, ಪಾಪಿ, ನೀತಿಗೆಟ್ಟವ, ಒಪ್ಪದಿರು
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- reprobate in Malay
- laknatullah
Synonyms of reprobate
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Forms of reprobate
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more reprobate |
| superlative | most reprobate |
| Noun | |
| plural | reprobates |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | reprobates |
| present participle | reprobating |
| past participle | reprobated |
| past | reprobated |
Origin of reprobate
First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
First attested in c. 1451, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobaten, from reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin reprobātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Doublet of reprove.
Words formed from reprobate
Questions about reprobate
- What does reprobate mean?
- Reprobate means rejected; cast off as worthless.
- What is reprobate in Urdu?
- Reprobate in Urdu is گمراہ, ناکام, نیچ. See Reprobate meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is reprobate?
- Reprobate can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce reprobate?
- Reprobate is pronounced /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/.
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