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Deviant vs Depraved - What's the difference?

deviant | depraved |

As adjectives the difference between deviant and depraved

is that deviant is of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard while depraved is perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.

As a noun deviant

is a person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.

As a verb depraved is

past tense of deprave.

deviant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
    • At the trial, the extent of his deviant behavior became clear.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
    • He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
  • A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
    • As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant .

    See also

    (defiant)

    References

    * Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----

    depraved

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (deprave)

    • Adjective

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

    • Derived terms

    * depravedly * depravedness

    Related terms

    * deprave * depravity

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