depraved

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of depravesimple past and past participle of deprave

adjective

1. 1

   Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.

   a depraved killer

   The driver who speeds with reckless disregard for the consequences to others but without any intent to harm the darting child may receive jail time but is often treated far differently from the depraved killer who sets out with a purposeful plan to murder the child.

2. 2

   Violating principles of rectitude or given standards of decency.

   You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

3. 3

   archaicDistorted out of the normal course; abnormal.

   The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]

   There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]

Forms

comparative

more depraved

superlative

most depraved