Word Meanings - CORRUPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles. 2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated;

Additional info about word: CORRUPT

1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles. 2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you. Shak. 3. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CORRUPT)

• Abandoned
• Profligate
• wicked
• vicious
• unprincipled
• reprobate
• incorrigible
• sinful
• graceless
• demoralized
• dissolute
• depraved
• bad
• licentious
• corrupt
• Adulterate
• Debase
• deteriorate
• vitiate
• contaminate
• Base \adj Vile
• dishonorable
• low
• sordid
• ignoble
• worthiest
• mean
• infamous
• shameful
• grovelling
• disingenuous
• disesteemed
• cheap
• deep
• Contaminate
• Defile
• taint
• sully
• befoul
• Degrade
• lower
• depress
• deprave
• alloy
• impair
• disgrace
• humble

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CORRUPT)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate
• Sanction
• commend
• approve

Related words: (words related to CORRUPT)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• ALLOYAGE
  The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• INCORRIGIBLENESS
  Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• DISSOLUTE
  1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
• DEMORALIZATION
  The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.