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Definition: Reprobate |
ReprobateAdjective1. Marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat". Noun1. A person without moral scruples. Verb1. Reject as invalid, as of documents. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reprobate" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Reprobate that which is rejected on account of its own worthlessness (Jer. 6:30; Heb. 6:8; Gr. adokimos, "rejected"). This word is also used with reference to persons cast away or rejected because they have failed to make use of opportunities offered them (1 Cor. 9:27; 2 Cor. 13:5-7). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ReprobateSynonyms: depraved (adj), immoral (adj), perverse (adj), perverted (adj), miscreant (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: approbate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag, scallawag. |
Disapprobation | Blame; lay blame upon, cast blame upon; censure, fronder, reproach, pass censure on, reprobate, impugn. |
Impiety | Un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate; hardened, perverted, reprobate. |
The wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness. | |
Vice | Incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible; (guilty). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reprobate |
| English words defined with "reprobate": black sheep ♦ depraved ♦ immoral ♦ perverse, perverted ♦ Reprobated, Reprobateness, Reprobating ♦ scapegrace. (references) |
| "Reprobate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.22% of the time. "Reprobate" is used about 18 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 72.22% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
reprobate | 16 |
mind reprobate | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reprobate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kopuk (bad character, blackguard, cad, knave, miscreant, rapscallion, rascal, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, varmint, villain), i paskrupull (unprincipled, unscrupulous), i pamoralshëm (bad, immoral), horr (cad, knave, rat, rough neck, ruffian, scoundrel, villain). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقدر عليه الهلاك, نبذ (cashier, centrifuge, dereliction, discard, dismiss, dismissal, forsake, reject, rejection, relegate, scrap, slough, throw away), قدر الله عليه الهلاك, إستهجن (censure, disapprove, inform against, shrug, thumbs down), إستنكر (censure, denounce, deprecate, disapprove, mow, reprove, show up), رفض (decline, defy, denial, denied, deny, disallow, disapproval, disapprove, dismiss, ignore, negate, negation, negative, nix, objection, odium, overrule, pass up, rebuff, refusal, refuse, reject, rejection, renouncement, repel, repudiate, repudiation, repulse, scorn, set aside, throw out, throw over, toss, turn down), شخص شرير (devil), شرير (bad, black, black-hearted, dark, devil, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, nasty, naughty, rascally, rogue, roguish, rude, sinister, spiteful, unholy, vicious, wicked). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | развратен (abandoned, debauched, dissolute, fast, filthy, goatish, immoral, impure, lax, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, perverted, profligate, rakish, scarlet, sporty), отхвърлям някого, окаян човек (wretch), окаян (abject, beggarly, deplorable, despicable, forlorn, miserable, squalid, wretched), загубен човек, загубен (lost), безпътен човек, безпътен (abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, immodest, profligate, unsteady), порицавам (anathematize, blame, censure, criminate, decry, lash, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, upbraid, wig), подлец (bastard, blackguard, caitiff, creep, dastard, hangdog, ratface, recreant, scoundrel, skunk, sneak, sneaker, snot, twerp, villain, wretch, yellow dog), изоставам някого. (various references) | |
Czech | zpustlík (libertine, rake), zavrhnout (cast away, cast off, discard, proscribe, reject, repudiate, throw over), odsoudit (condemn, convict, criticize, denounce, judge, sentence), mravnì zkažený èlovìk. (various references) | |
Farsi | فاسد (Corrupt, Dissolute, Gamy, Immoral, Perverse, Putrid, Rake, Rancid, Reechy, Rotten, Sedition, Sinister, Untoward, Vicious, Vile, Villainous), محرومیت (Privation, Proscription), مردود (Castaway, Washout), هرزه (Bawdy, Dissolute, Harlot, Immoral, Lascivious, Lewd, Libertine, Licentious, Loose, Perverse, Profligate, Prurient, Rake, Rakish, Ribald, Salacious, Sordid), بداخلاق (Acid, Bad, Dissolute, Immoral, Impatient, Licentious, Moody, Rabid, Rake, Vile). (various references) | |
French | réprouver (reject, reprove), dépravé. (various references) | |
German | verwerfen (abolish, abort, brush aside, condemn, discard, dismiss, overrule, quash, reject, rejection, to overrule, to reprobate), verkommen (abandoned, become dilapidated, become dissolute, become run-down, become spoiled, decay, depraved, deteriorate, dilapidated, fall to pieces, go bad, go to pieces, go to the bad, go to the dogs, go to waste, reprobated, reprobately, run wild, scrofulous, sleazy, sordid, to reprobate, wild). (various references) | |
Greek | κατακρίνω (blame, censure, deprecate, reproach, reprove), καταδικάζω (condemn, convict, damn, doom, sentence), φαύλοσ (corrupt, flagitious, nefarious, pervert, scoundrelly, sinister, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villain, villainous, wanton, wicked), εξώλησ (roue), αποδοκιμάζω (boo, deprecate, disapprove, disapprove of, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, hiss, hoot, reprehend, take a dim view). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חוטא (peccant, sinful, sinner, wrongdoer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kárhozott ember, elkárhozott, elkárhozott ember, elvetemült (blackguardly, caitiff, desperado), elvetemült ember, elvetendő, elfogadhatatlan (inadmissible, ineligible, unacceptable), kárhozott, semmirekellõ (ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, rotter, scamp), kitaszított (abject, castaway, he is beyond the pale, outcast), mihaszna (piffling, rotter, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag), mihaszna gazember, mihaszna szoknyavadász, semmirekellő (beach-comber, blighter, jerk-off, miscreant, rep, rotter, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, wrong'un), semmirekellő gazember, haszontalan (barren, feckless, fiddling, frivolous, futile, good for nothing, helpless, idle, ineffectual, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, null, otiose, punk, unavailable, unavailing, unhelpful). (various references) | |
Italian | riprovare (censure, feel again, try again), canaglia (bounder, rascal, riffraff, scamp, scoundrel, sod, villain), biasimare (blame, censure, condemn, disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke, reprove, scorch). (various references) | |
Manx | rag-rannee (cad, crook, good-for-nothing, rascal, rogue, tough), mac-imshee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eprobateray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reprovar (admonish, condemn, disapprove, plough, rebuke, throw-out), rejeitar (cast off, condemn, confute, daff, deny, disapprove, disavow, disclaim, get up the better, negative, overrule, pill, pip, put by, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, throw-out, turn down), reimpermeabilizar (reprove), recusar (balk, challenge, confute, decline, deny, dismiss, pill, pish, put back, rebut, refuse, reject, repulse, set aside, turn down, withhold), réprobo (offcast, sinful), precito, patife (caitiff, cheat, crook, heavy, knave, mean-spirited, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, rascal, rascally, rogue, rotter, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scoundrelly, spalpeen, vagabond, villain, wretch), malvado (bad, black-hearted, candle-wick, evil, felon, felonious, flagitious, heavy, ill-conditioned, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, mischievous, nasty, nefarious, perverse, scoundrelly, vicious, villain, wicked, wrong), desaprovar (deprecate, disallow, disapprove, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, negative, object, rebuke), condenar (adjudge, attaint, condemn, convict, cuss, damn, denounce, devote, doom, misdeem, sentence). (various references) | |
Romanian | ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), secãturã (cad, good for nothing, ne'er do well, rotter, scapegrace, trifles), osândi la chinurile infernului, netrebnic (a dirty dog, good for nothing, knave, knavish, picaroon, rascal, scab, sneak, useless, vile, villain, worthless, wretch), nemernic (base, cad, caitiff, felon, foul, rascal, rascally, scamp, scoundrel, sneak, sneaking, son of a gun, villain, wretch, wretched), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully), dezaproba (censure, condemn, deprecate, disallow, disapprove, disapprove of, disavow, discommend, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, dispraise, reject), destrãbãlat (debauched, debauchee, dissipated, dissolute, lewd, libertine, lickerish, liquorish, loose, profligate, rake, reinless, unruly), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, reinless, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster), derbedeu (rogue, scapegrace, scoundrel, tramp, truant, urchin, vagabond), condamna (adjudge, ban, blame, censure, condemn, convict, crime, decry, deprecate, fine, judge, reprove, sentence, vituperate). (various references) | |
Russian | распутник распутный, отверженный (cast off, castaway, excommunicate, off-cast, outlaw, pariah), негодяй (brat, coyote, dastard, gallows bird, gallows-bird, hound, knave, loon, man of Belial, miscreant, rascal, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, spalpeen, villain, wretch), безнравственный (immoral, unmoral, unprincipled, wicked), подлый (base, dastardly, despicable, dirty, ignoble, mean, meanspirited, mean-spirited, rascally, reptile, scoundrelly, scummy, sneaking, vile, villainous, wormy), подлец (blackguard, coyote, dastard, dog, mean-spirited fellow, pimp, rascal, scoundrel, whoreson). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prokletnik, proklet (accursed, accurst, blasted, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, doomed, fey, maledictory), lažan (apocryphal, assumed, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, faked, false, feigned, lying, mock, phoney, phony, pseudo, sham, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), izopačenik, izopačen (corrupted, deviant, garbled, perverse, perverted), bezočnik, bezočan (arrant, audacious, barefaced, impudent, nefarious). (various references) | |
Spanish | reprobar (animadvert, blame, condemn, disapprove, disapprove of, lash out, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold), recriminar (disburden, disencumber, exonerate, recriminate, reproach), réprobo. (various references) | |
Swedish | förtappad (lost), förkasta (cast off, denounce, disallow, disapprove, disavow, discard, jettison, kill, negative, overrule, reject, repudiate, throw overboard, turn down). (various references) | |
Turkish | yoldan çıkmış (oblique, off base), serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), lanetlemek (anathematize, curse, damn, darn), kınamak (blame, cast reflection on smb., castigate, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, disapprove, fault, remonstrate, reprimand, reproach, reprove, slate, stigmatize, strafe), huzuruna kabul etmemek, hoşgörmemek (discountenance, frown, not to tolerate, reprove), günahkâr (erring, evil, evil doer, fallen, guilty, sacrilegious, sinful, sinner, transgressor, trespasser, ungodly, unrighteous, wicked, wrongdoer), ayıplamak (blame, cast reflection on smb., chide, condemn, dispraise, fault, reflect on, reflect upon, reproach, reprove), ahlaksız (abandoned, characterless, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, disorderly, dissolute, frail, ill, immoral, impure, libertine, loose, low down, mean, purple, rascal, rascally, rep, unclean, uncleanly, unmoral, unprincipled, unregenerate, unscrupulous, vicious, wanton, wicked). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпусник (debauchee, lecher, libertine, philanderer, profligate, ribald, roue, whipster, whore monger), гудити (blame, censure, condemn, decry, toot, worsen), відкидати (abnegate, baffle, balk, brush away, cast aside, cast away, deny, disapprove, discard, divest, doff, forswear, jettison, negate, negative, non-concur, override, overturn, push back, rebut, reject, repudiate, set aside, throw aside, throw away, toss aside, turn down, wave aside, wave away), осуджувати (animadvert, criticize, damn, denounce, disapprove, disfavor, disfavour, dispraise, impeach, judge, reprehend, reprove), нечестивець (castaway), нечестивий (castaway, godless, impious, irreligious, nefarious, profane, unholy, unrighteous, wicked), негідник (blackguard, cad, caitiff, cullion, gallows, miscreant, niddering, pimp, rascal, scoundrel, skunk, thief, varlet, wretch), аморальний (amoral, bad, immoral, libertine, licentious, non moral, unclean, unmoral), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hangdog, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, scabbed, scoundrel, scummy, scurvy, small, sneaking, sneaky, vile, yellow dog). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ phóng đãng truỵ lạc. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwrthodedig (rejected). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | damnatorum, damnatus, re-. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 28 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai kaqwV ouk edokimasan ton qeon ecein en epignwsei paredwken autouV o qeoV eiV adokimon noun poiein ta mh kaqhkonta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et sicut non probaverunt Deum habere in notitia tradidit eos Deus in reprobum sensum ut faciant quae non conveniunt |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Eac, forðy him ne ðuhte hit nydðearflic Godes gemynd to behealdanne, ofergeaf he hie wiðerweardlicum mode swa þæt hi dydon þæt þe man don ne scylde. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And as thei preueden that thei hadden not God in knowyng, God bitook hem in to a repreuable wit, that thei do tho thingis that ben not couenable; that thei ben fulfillid with al wickidnesse, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Beinge full of all vnrighteous doinge of fornicacio wickednes coveteousnes maliciousnes full of envie morther debate disseyte evill codicioned whisperers |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right; |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 28 |
| Cebuano | Ug kay nanagdumili man sila sa pag-ila kaniya ingon nga Dios, sila gitugyan sa Dios ngadto sa pagpanghunahuna nga dautan ug sa paggawi nga dili angay. |
| Chinese | 他 們 既 然 故 意 不 認 識 神 、 神 就 任 憑 他 們 存 邪 僻 的 心 、 行 那 些 不 合 理 的 事 . |
| Croatian | I kako nisu smatrali vrijednim držati se spoznaje Boga, predade ih Bog nevaljanu umu te èine što ne dolikuje, |
| Danish | Og ligesom de forkastede af have Gud i Erkendelse, således gav Gud dem hen i et forkasteligt Sind til at gøre det usømmelige, |
| Dutch | En gelijk het hun niet goed gedacht heeft God in erkentenis te houden, zo heeft God hen overgegeven in een verkeerden zin, om te doen dingen, die niet betamen; |
| Finnish | Ja niinkuin heille ei kelvannut pitää kiinni Jumalan tuntemisesta, niin Jumala hylkäsi heidät heidän kelvottoman mielensä valtaan, tekemään sopimattomia. |
| French | Comme ils ne se sont pas souciés de connaître Dieu, Dieu les a livrés leur sens réprouvé, pour commettre des choses indignes, |
| German | Und gleichwie sie nicht geachtet haben, daß sie Gott erkenneten, hat sie Gott auch dahingegeben in verkehrten Sinn, zu tun, was nicht taugt, |
| Haitian Creole | Yo refize bay Bondye premye plas nan kè yo. Bondye tou kite yo tonbe anba pouvwa lespri yo ki fin deraye pou yo fè bagay yo pa t' dwe fè. |
| Hungarian | És a miképen nem méltatták az Istent arra, hogy ismeretökben megtartsák, azonképen oda adták õket az Isten méltatlan gondolkozásra, hogy illetlen dolgokat cselekedjenek; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Oleh sebab manusia tidak merasa perlu mengenal Allah, maka Allah membiarkan pikiran mereka menjadi rusak, sehingga mereka melakukan hal-hal yang mereka tidak boleh lakukan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sebab mereka itu enggan berpegangkan Allah di dalam marifatnya, maka mereka itu diserahkan Allah kepada angan-angan yang keji, sehingga melakukan barang yang tiada senonoh, |
| Maori | A i a ratou kihai nei i pai kia mau tonu te Atua ki o ratou mahara, tukua ana ratou e te Atua ki te hinengaro he, kia mahia nga mea kahore e tau kia mahia. |
| Norwegian | Og likesom de ikke brydde sig om å eie Gud i kunnskap, så overgav Gud dem til et sinn som intet duer, så de gjorde det usømmelige: |
| Portuguese | E assim como eles rejeitaram o conhecimento de Deus, Deus, por sua vez, os entregou a um sentimento depravado, para fazerem coisas que não convêm; |
| Rumanian | Fiindcq n`au cqutat sq pqstreze pe Dumnezeu kn cunowtinya lor, Dumnezeu i -a lqsat kn voia minyii lor blestemate, ca sq facq lucruri nekngqduite. |
| Shuar | Tura tuke Yúsan nakitiainia asamtai ti yajauch Enentáimiainiak penké Túrachminia nuna Túrawarti tusa Yus tsankatkarmiayi. |
| Swahili | Kwa vile watu walikataa kumtambua Mungu, Mungu amewaacha katika fikira zao potovu, wakafanya yale ambayo hawangestahili kufanya. |
| Swedish | Och eftersom de icke hade aktat det något värt att taga vara på sin kunskap om Gud, gav Gud dem till pris åt ett ovärdigt sinnelag, till att bedriva otillbörliga ting. |
| Uma | Apa' oja' -ra mpangaku' Alata'ala hi rala pekiri-ra, toe pai' Alata'ala mpelele' pekiri-ra jadi' mogero, alaa-na mpobabehi-ra to uma taoa-na rababehi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reprobate": reprobated, reprobates. (additional references) | |
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"Reprobate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: repeobate, reprbate, reprebate, reprobare, reprobat, reprobatre, reprocate, retrobate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: perborate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: perorate. | |
-2 letters: aborter, operate, pearter, praetor, probate, prorate, rebater, reprobe, taborer, taperer. | |
-3 letters: aerobe, barret, barter, bearer, beater, berate, boater, borate, parrot, perter, porter, prater, pretor, prober, protea, raptor, reaper, rebate, rebato, rebore, repeat, report, retape, retear, retore, tearer, terrae. | |
-4 letters: abort, aport, apter, arbor, arete, barer, barre, beret, boart, borer, eater, etape, oater. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: perborates, reportable, reprobated, reprobates. | |
+2 letters: reprobative. | |
+3 letters: baroreceptor, protuberance. | |
+4 letters: baroreceptors, interoperable, protuberances. | |
+5 letters: superabsorbent. | |
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