noun
Meaning 1
Detraction; depreciation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
depravation
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dɛp.ɹəˈveɪ.ʃən/
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rhymes with -eɪʃən
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CMU ARPABET: D EH2 P R AH0 V EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: abasement, debasement, perversion, adulteration, corruption, debauchment, defilement, depravation, depravement, impurification, pollution, profanation
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: baseness, depravity, perversion, corruption, defilement, degeneracy, degradation, depravation, depravedness, impurity, iniquity, lewdity, malignity, misdoing, misguilt, obliquity, peccability, pollution, pravity, sin, sinfulness, turpitude, vitiation, wickedness, wrongdoing
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: debasement, degeneration, degradation, distortion, aggravation, corruption, deterioration, devolution, embasement, exacerbation, ruining, withering, worsening, wrecking
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
- moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
- its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
- Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravity, putrefaction
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: immorality
History
Etymology
From Middle French dépravation, from Latin dēprāvātiō (“perversion, distortion, corruption, depravity”).