vitiated

1. 1.

   impaired by diminution

   Synonymsdiminishedlessenedweakened

   Similarimpaired
2. 2.

   ruined in character or quality

   Synonymscorrupteddebased

   Similarcorrupt

Questions about vitiated

What does vitiated mean?

vitiated means "impaired by diminution". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vitiated?

vitiated has 4 syllables: vi-ti-a-ted. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for vitiated?

Close synonyms include diminished, lessened, weakened, corrupted, debased. 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.

Is vitiated a common word?

vitiated is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.