reprobate

1. 1.

   reject (documents) as invalid

   Antonymsapprobate

   Broaderreject
2. 2.

   abandon to eternal damnation

   “God reprobated the unrepenting sinner”

   Broadersentence

   theology

3. 3.

   express strong disapproval of

   “We condemn the racism in South Africa”

   “These ideas were reprobated”

   Synonymscondemndecryobjurgateexcoriate

   Broaderdenounce

1. 1.

   a person without moral scruples

   Synonymsmiscreant

   Broaderwrongdoer

   Narrowerpervertscapegracewretch

1. 1.

   deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good

   “depraved criminals”

   “a perverted sense of loyalty”

   “the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat”

   Synonymsdepravedperverseperverted

   Similarcorrupt

Other forms of reprobate

plural

reprobates·

past tense

reprobated·

present participle

reprobating·

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 reprobate

What does reprobate mean?

reprobate means "reject (documents) as invalid". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reprobate?

reprobate has 3 syllables: rep-ro-bate. The stress falls on "rep". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛpɹɔbeɪt/.

What is another word for reprobate?

Close synonyms include condemn, decry, objurgate, excoriate, miscreant. 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 reprobate?

The recorded antonyms are approbate.

Is reprobate a common word?

reprobate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.