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Definition: Debauched |
DebauchedAdjective1. Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "debauched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: DebauchedSynonyms: degenerate (adj), degraded (adj), dissipated (adj), dissolute (adj), fast (adj), libertine (adj), profligate (adj), riotous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impurity | Unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should be; on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose. |
Intemperance | Adjective: intemperate,inabstinent; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Debauched |
| English words defined with "debauched": Debauchedness, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute ♦ fast ♦ libertine ♦ profligate ♦ riotous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "debauched": Gourre ♦ Jews ♦ RAKE, RAKEHELL. (references) |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | The Nation has been deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn passion, stirred by the knowledge of wrong, of ideals lost, of government too often debauched and made an instrument of evil. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Debauched" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 76.19% of the time. "Debauched" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 76.19% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "debauched": debauched frise. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
debauched | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "debauched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shthurur (disorganized, dissipated, dissolute, impure, libertine, licentious, loose, profligate, promiscuous, unrighteous). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاسق (bawdy, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, don juan, fornicator, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, lubricious, miscreant, obscene, philanderer, profligate, punk, raffish, rakish, scab, scarlet, slippery, unchaste, uninhibited, wanton), غاوي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | развратен (abandoned, dissolute, fast, filthy, goatish, immoral, impure, lax, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, perverted, profligate, rakish, reprobate, scarlet, sporty). (various references) | |
Czech | zpustlý (depraved, desolate, dissolute, raffish, rakish, uncared for, vicious), zkažený (bad, corrupt, decayed, high, perverted, putrid, rotten, ruined, spoilt, stale, wicked), zhýralý (dissolute, rakish), prostopášný (dissolute, libidinous, licentious, loose, profligate, rakish, wanton), nezřízený (disordered), mravnì zkažený (depraved). (various references) | |
French | débauché, séduisant, corrompu (depraved). (various references) | |
German | verführte (inveigled, seduced), verdorben (addled, bad, corrupt, corrupted, corruptly, depraved, foul, off, perished, polluted, putrid, putridly, rotten, ruined, spoiled, tainted, upset). (various references) | |
Greek | έκλυτος (dissolute). (various references) | |
Hungarian | züllött (depraved, dissipated, lecherous, lewd, libertine, perverse, perverted, raffish), romlott (blown, corrupt, depraved, dissolute, perverse, rank, rotten, unsound), erkölcsileg romlott. (various references) | |
Italian | dissoluto (dissolute, goatish, lawless, licentious, profligate, rakish, riotous, roue, unchecked, unrestrained), depravato (corrupt, depraved), licenzioso (dissipated, dissolute, frolicsome, indecent, lawless, licentious, loose, obscene, profligate, raffish, ribald, riotous, rollicking, unchecked, undisciplined, unrestrained, wanton, wild). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 遊蕩児 (debauched person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆうとうじ (debauched person). (various references) | |
Manx | trullit (corrupted), gimmanagh (salacious, smutty, unchaste, wanton). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ebauchedday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pervertido (debauchee, drawn, perverted, warped), bacântico (dissolute, maenadic, orgiastic). (various references) | |
Romanian | destrãbãlat (debauchee, dissipated, dissolute, lewd, libertine, lickerish, liquorish, loose, profligate, rake, reinless, reprobate, unruly), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster). (various references) | |
Russian | развращенный (corrupt). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razvratan (abandoned, cypriote, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, obscene, perverse, wild). (various references) | |
Spanish | perverso (abandoned, evil, perverse, perverted, unnatural, vicious, wicked). (various references) | |
Swedish | sedeslös (immoral, lewd). (various references) | |
Turkish | zevk ve eğlence düşkünü, ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, depraved, dirty, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, reprobate, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton, wicked). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розбещений (abandoned, bad, corrupt, degenerate, depraved, filthy, licentious, miscreant, spoilt, wanton, wild), розпусний (bestial, lecherous, libertine, lickerish, meretricious, profligate, rakish, riotous, salacious, wide), зіпсований (addle, adulterated, bad, base, corrupt, decadent, deformed, degenerate, miscreant, naughty, out of order, spoilt, unsound, wrong). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Debauched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: debeaked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-d-e-e-h-u" | |
-2 letters: abduced, beached, debauch. | |
-3 letters: abduce, adduce, bached, beaded, behead, daubed, decade, deduce, deuced, educed, headed. | |
-4 letters: ached, beach, beech, ceded, cubed, daube, deuce, eched, educe, haded. | |
-5 letters: abed, aced, ache, bach, bade, baud, bead, beau, bedu, cade, cede, chad, chub, cube, cued, dace, daub, dead, deed, duad, duce, dude, each, eche, habu, hade, haed. | |
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