different between depraved vs deprecating

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?e?vd/

Verb

depraved

1. simple past tense and past participle of deprave

Adjective

depraved (comparative more depraved, superlative most depraved)

1. Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
2. (archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
   • 1916, Veterinary Medicine (volume 11, page 759)

     There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]

Derived terms

• depraved-heart murder
• depravedly
• depravedness

Related terms

• deprave
• depravity

Translations

Anagrams

• pervaded

English

Verb

deprecating

1. present participle of deprecate

Adjective

deprecating (comparative more deprecating, superlative most deprecating)

1. In manner that deprecates; insulting; belittling.
   • 1912, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea, Chapter I. The Hurrying of Ludovic, 7

     Theodora, with a deprecating look at Arnold Sherman, took his arm, and Ludovic marched her across the green amid a silence which the very horses tied to the storm fence seemed to share. For Ludovic 'twas a crowded hour of glorious life.

   She looked at him with a deprecating smile on her face.

   He raised his hand with a deprecating gesture.

Derived terms

• deprecatingly

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