Reprobate Meaning and Usage

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Meaning:

noun.
- a morally unprincipled person.
- one who is predestined to damnation.

adjective
- morally unprincipled; shameless.
- rejected by God and without hope of salvation.

verb
- to rebuke, admonish, condemn, to disapprove of;

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Derivatives:

reprobation - noun
reprobative - adjective
reprobateness - noun
reprobator - noun

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Reprobate Synonyms:

Noun
debauchee, degenerate, deviant, deviate, drunkard, guzzler, libertine, miscreant, offender, outcast, pariah, pervert , rake, rascal, rogue, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, seducer, sinner, sneak, sot, toper, tramp, transgressor, varmint, viper, wastrel, wretch, wrongdoer.

Verb
blame, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, deplore, doom, excoriate, objurgate, rebuke, reject, reprehend, reprove, sentence.

Adjective
accursed, amoral, bad, base, black, blasphemous, corrupt, cursed, damned, degraded, demoralized, depraved, despicable, diabolical, disreputable, dissolute, evil, immoral, iniquitous, lewd, malevolent, peccant, perverse, perverted, profligate, repellent, sinful, unprincipled, unregenerate, vicious, vile, vitiated, wicked, worthless, wrong.


Reprobate Antonyms:

adjective
principled, upright, virtuous, good, honest, moral

verb
commend, praise

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Use reprobate in a sentence:

1. The teacher will reprobate the actions of the delinquent student.

2. His assertions were reprobated as inappropriate.

3. She fell in love with a reprobate laundry man who took her to the cleaners.

4. A reprobate and a drunkard in his youth, Mike underwent a spiritual rebirth this year.

5. The old reprobate hung around the waterfront looking for drugs to buy.

6. Some thought that the murderer was a reprobate who deserved to die.

7. He was officially reprobated by his company for taking kickbacks under the table.

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Do you know:

In Middle English reprobate was taken as simply "condemned" or "reproved". It derived from the Latin word reprobtus, which is one of the verb forms (past participle) of reprobre, which means to reprove.

Reprove is basically to admonish someone because you disapprove of what they have done (the opposite would be to praise or approve).

Nowadays, a reprobate is taken to mean someone without moral principles. In a Christian context, it would be used to describe someone who is damned to go to Hell (even God has given up on them), because of their innate inability to adhere to any moral standards.

Reprobate is related to the words probation & probationer. Both words refer to the idea of a person in a state where they have to prove themselves to be able to conform to certain moral standards.

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