different between degraded vs craven

English

Etymology

See degrade and compare French degré (“step”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d????e?d?d/

Adjective

degraded (comparative more degraded, superlative most degraded)

1. Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.

   • The Netherlands […] were reduced, practically, to a very degraded condition.

2. (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
   • 1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea

     The Grapsoid species are represented of a degraded form in Porcellana

3. (heraldry, not comparable) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.

Synonyms

• (deprived of dignity): humiliated

Translations

Verb

degraded

1. simple past tense and past participle of degrade

English

Etymology

From Middle English craven (adjective).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?.v?n/
• Rhymes: -e?v?n

Adjective

craven (comparative more craven, superlative most craven)

1. Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cowardly

Derived terms

• cry craven

Translations

Noun

craven (plural cravens)

1. A coward.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:coward

Translations

Verb

craven (third-person singular simple present cravens, present participle cravening, simple past and past participle cravened)

1. To make craven.
   • 1609: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Cymbeline, Act III, Scene IV

     There is a prohibition so divine / That cravens my weak hand.

References

• craven in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• craven in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• carven, cavern

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English craving.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kr?e?v?n/, /kr?e?b?n/
• Hyphenation: cra?ven

Adjective

craven

1. gluttonous, greedy

   Synonyms: gravalicious, licky-licky, nyamy-nyamy

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter, from Latin crepare (“to crack", "creak”)

Adjective

craven

1. Defeated.

Etymology 2

From Old English crafian, from Proto-Germanic *krafjan? (“to demand”).

Verb

craven

1. desire; crave

Derived terms

• icravet (past participle)