corrupt

1. 1.

   lacking in integrity

   “humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation”

   “a corrupt and incompetent city government”

   Antonymsincorrupt

   SimilarcorruptedcorruptibledepraveddirtyPraetorianputridsold-out
2. 2.

   not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

   Synonymscrooked

   Similarsneaky
3. 3.

   containing errors or alterations

   “a corrupt text”

   “spoke a corrupted version of the language”

   Synonymscorrupted

   Similarimperfect
4. 4.

   touched by rot or decay

   “tainted bacon”

   “`corrupt' is archaic”

   Synonymstainted

   Similarstale

Other forms of corrupt

past tense

corrupted·

present participle

corrupting·

third person

corrupts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about corrupt

What does corrupt mean?

corrupt means "corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in corrupt?

corrupt has 2 syllables: cor-rupt. The stress falls on "rupt". In IPA it is /kɚˈʌpt/.

What is another word for corrupt?

Close synonyms include pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of corrupt?

The recorded antonyms are incorrupt.

Is corrupt a common word?

corrupt is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with corrupt?

1 word rhymes with corrupt. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.