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Depraved vs Deplorable - What's the difference?

depraved | deplorable | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between depraved and deplorable

is that depraved is perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense while deplorable is deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.

As a verb depraved

is past tense of deprave.

depraved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (deprave)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.

    • Derived terms

    * depravedly * depravedness

    Related terms

    * deprave * depravity

    Anagrams

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    deplorable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.
  • (senseid)To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
  • :
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable , fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

    • Synonyms

    * pathetic