Reprobate

['reprəbeɪt] or ['rɛprəbet]

Definition

(noun.) a person without moral scruples.

(verb.) reject (documents) as invalid.

(verb.) abandon to eternal damnation; 'God reprobated the unrepenting sinner'.

Editor: Sonya--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.

(a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved.

(a.) Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct.

(n.) One morally abandoned and lost.

(v. t.) To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.

(v. t.) To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Reprobated, rejected, disallowed, discarded, condemned.[2]. Depraved, abandoned, profligate, corrupt, hardened, lost, graceless, base, shameless, wicked, vile.

n. Villain, castaway, outcast, outlaw, scapegrace, miscreant, caitiff, vile wretch.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Abandoned, castaway, irredeemable, lost

ANT:Hopeful, redeemable, salvable, recoverable

SYN:Castaway, villain, ruffian, miscreant, scapegrace, scalawag

ANT:Example, pattern, mirror, model, paragon

SYN:Condemn, denounce

ANT:Sanction, commend, approve

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Definition

adj. condemned: base: given over to sin: depraved: vile: (B.) that will not stand proof or trial: (Sterne) condemnatory.—n. an abandoned or profligate person: one lost to shame.—v.t. to disapprove: to censure: to disown.—ns. Rep′rōbācy state of being a reprobate; Rep′robance (Shak.) reprobation; Rep′robāteness; Rep′robāter; Reprobā′tion the act of reprobating: rejection: the act of abandoning to destruction: state of being so abandoned: the doctrine of the fore-ordination of the impenitent to eternal perdition: (mil.) disqualification to bear office; Reprobā′tioner one who maintains the doctrine of reprobation by divine decree.—adj. Reprobā′tive criminatory.—n. Rep′robātor (Scots law) an old form of action to prove a witness to be perjured or biassed.—adj. Rep′robātory reprobative.

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