different between shameful vs degraded
shameful
English
Etymology
From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *s?eamfull, s?eomfull, equivalent to shame +? -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?mf?l/
Adjective
shameful (comparative more shameful, superlative most shameful)
- Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
- 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
- "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
- 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
- Giving offense.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:despicable
Derived terms
- shamefully
- shamefulness
Translations
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degraded
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)
- Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
- The Netherlands […] were reduced, practically, to a very degraded condition.
- (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
- 1852, James Dwight Dana, Crustacaea
- (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
- simple past tense and past participle of degrade
degraded From the web:
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- what does degraded mean
- what is degraded energy
- what is degraded soil
- what is degraded land
- what is degraded by peroxisome
- what does degraded performance mean
- what is degraded dna
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