Reprobate

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹɛpɹəbÉ™t/

From Latin reprobatus ("disapproved, rejected, condemned"), past participle of reprobare.

Full definition of reprobate

Adjective

1. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
• Bible, Jer. vi. 30Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
2. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
• Milton Lost|I, ll. 696-7,Strength and Art are easily out-done
  By Spirits reprobate
3. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.The reprobate criminal sneered at me.
• MiltonAnd strength, and art, are easily outdone
  By spirits reprobate.

Noun

1. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
2. An individual with low morals or principles.
• Sir Walter RaleighI acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.
• 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1"Good morning, Mrs. Denny," he said. "Wherefore this worried look on your face? Has that reprobate James been misbehaving himself?"

Related terms

• depraved

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/

From Latin reprobare.

Verb

1. To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
2. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
3. To refuse, set aside.

Anagrams

• perborate