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- Dictionarydegrading/dɪˈɡreɪdɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing a loss of self-respect; humiliating: "the prisoners were subjected to cruel and degrading treatment"
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DEGRADING definition: 1. causing people to feel that they have no value: 2. causing people to feel that they have no…. Learn more.
The meaning of DEGRADING is causing or associated with a low, destitute, or demoralized state : causing someone to be or feel degraded. How to use degrading in a sentence.
1. a. : to lower in grade, rank, or status : demote. b. : to strip of rank or honors. c. : to lower to an inferior or less effective level. degrade the image quality. : to scale down in desirability or salability. 2. a. : to bring to low esteem or into disrepute. Their actions have degraded their profession.
to cause people to feel that they or other people have no value and do not have the respect or good opinion of others: Pornography degrades women. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Humiliating and degrading. abasement. be under a cloud idiom. bring/take someone down a peg (or two) idiom. bruise someone's ego idiom. disgraced.
Degrading definition: that degrades; debasing; humiliating. See examples of DEGRADING used in a sentence.
Degrading describes something that is disrespectful or dishonorable like a degrading comment that angered everyone who heard it. The word degrading comes from degrade, which means "to treat someone with contempt." So something that is degrading is cruel, meant to put a person or group down.
DEGRADING meaning: 1. causing people to feel that they have no value: 2. causing people to feel that they have no…. Learn more.
to reduce (someone) to a lower rank, degree, etc.; deprive of office, rank, status, or title, especially as a punishment: degraded from director to assistant director. Synonyms: break, cashier, lower, downgrade, depose, demote. Antonyms: promote. to reduce in amount, strength, intensity, etc.
adjective. /dɪˈɡreɪdɪŋ/ treating somebody as if they have no value, so that they lose their self-respect and the respect of other people. the inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners. degrading to somebody Many people complained that the song's lyrics were degrading to women. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Want to learn more?
noun. Word Frequency. degrading in American English. (diˈgreɪdɪŋ ; dɪˈgreɪdɪŋ ) adjective. that degrades; debasing. SIMILAR WORDS: base. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Derived forms. degradingly (deˈgradingly) adverb. Word Frequency.
