DEPRAVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depraved mean? 

• DEPRAVED (adjective)
  The adjective DEPRAVED has 1 sense:

1. deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good

  Familiarity information: DEPRAVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPRAVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good

Synonyms:

depraved; perverse; perverted; reprobate

Context example:

the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat

Similar:

corrupt (lacking in integrity)

Derivation:

depravity (moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles)

 Context examples 

“They are a depraved, worthless set. I would have her whipped!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Everybody believed that poor girl to be guilty; and if she could have committed the crime for which she suffered, assuredly she would have been the most depraved of human creatures.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was rich enough now—yet poor to hideous indigence: a nature the most gross, impure, depraved I ever saw, was associated with mine, and called by the law and by society a part of me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Alas! I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery; had he not murdered my brother?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)