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Debased

To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.

📖 Definitions of "Debased"

verb

1
To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
2
To lower in position or rank.
3
To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

adjective

9 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
lownoun	Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
corruptverb	Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
vitiated	impaired by diminution
degraded	Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
impureverb	Not pure
adulterateverb	(transitive) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
adulterated	Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street drug).
devalued	lowered in value
corrupted	Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
degraded	Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
corrupted	Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
impureverb	(transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute
adulterated	Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street drug).
adulterateverb	(transitive) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
corruptverb	(transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
lowverb	(intransitive) To moo.
devalued	lowered in value
vitiated	impaired by diminution
deterioratedverb	(intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
abasedverb	Humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige.
demeaning	Degrading; that degrades.
déclassé	Degraded from one's social class.
derogateverb	(transitive) To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
downtroddennoun	(figuratively) Oppressed, persecuted or subjugated.
depriment	(archaic) Serving to depress (force or push down).
decayed	Having undergone decay, rotted.
degenerate	(of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
derogatory	Disparaging.
denigratorynoun	Tending to denigrate.