AskDefine | Define depraved

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depraved adj
1 having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious]
2 hopelessly bad; "an unregenerate criminal" [syn: unreformable, unregenerate]
3 marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" [syn: immoral, perverse, perverted, reprobate]

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Verb

depraved
  1. past of deprave

Adjective

  1. Describing a person or action that is perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
  2. Also corrupt in a moral sense, or disposition.

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