degraded

Meanings

Adjective

• Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
• Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
• Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.

Verb

• Past of degrade

Related

Similar words

• humiliated

Origin

• See degrade and compare French degré ("step").