Reprobated Synonyms, Reprobated Antonyms

Synonyms for reprobated

verb criticize harshly

Antonyms for reprobated

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "rejected as worthless," from Late Latin reprobatus, past participle of reprobare "disapprove, reject, condemn," from Latin re- "opposite of, reversal of previous condition" (see re-) + probare "prove to be worthy" (see probate (n.)). Earliest form of the word in English was a verb, meaning "to disapprove" (early 15c.).

Example Sentences for reprobated

The author has laudably made his submission and reprobated his work.

Medical works were called for by one party, and reprobated by another.

When he first sent it anonymously to the French Academy it was reprobated.

This but quickened, however, in the Princess the act she reprobated.

It is not the use, but the abuse, of the thing which in this passage is reprobated.

Mr. Merriman, in one of his saner moments, reprobated this hypocrisy.

If I don't desarve to be reprobated, my name's not Joe Wrag.

Jenkyn says, "he suffered as one disowned and reprobated and forsaken of God."

Their practice of travelling first-class is also reprobated.

Why did such an idea occur to her even enough to be reprobated and forbidden?