depraved
/dipˈɹeɪvd/dee-PRAYVD
/dipˈɹeɪvd/dee-PRAYVD
Meaningcrooked; made bad
Common meaning: morally corrupt
- dedown, away, off; undoing
- pravcrooked; badLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1439 · scan
- edpast-participle ending
‘down, away, off’ + ‘crooked’ → depraved
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin prāvus ‘crooked; bad’.
Roots
- prāvus, -a, -um Latin “crooked; bad”
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