how to pronounce depraved

/diːpˈɹɛɪvd/

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depraved is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of depraved in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… even on the depraved and disgusting …”

meanings of depraved

adjective:

Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.

verb:

Simple past tense and past participle of deprave.

depraved frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word depraved occurs in english on average 0.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics depraved can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that depraved can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;