Meaning of "demean" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEMEAN

See de-, mean²; on the model of debase.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DEMEAN

demean  [dɪˈmiːn]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMEAN

Demean is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb demean in English.

WHAT DOES DEMEAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of demean in the English dictionary

The definition of demean in the dictionary is to lower in dignity, status, or character; humble; debase.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DEMEAN

PRESENT

Present

I demean

you demean

he/she/it demeans

we demean

you demean

they demean

Present continuous

I am demeaning

you are demeaning

he/she/it is demeaning

we are demeaning

you are demeaning

they are demeaning

Present perfect

I have demeaned

you have demeaned

he/she/it has demeaned

we have demeaned

you have demeaned

they have demeaned

Present perfect continuous

I have been demeaning

you have been demeaning

he/she/it has been demeaning

we have been demeaning

you have been demeaning

they have been demeaning

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I demeaned

you demeaned

he/she/it demeaned

we demeaned

you demeaned

they demeaned

Past continuous

I was demeaning

you were demeaning

he/she/it was demeaning

we were demeaning

you were demeaning

they were demeaning

Past perfect

I had demeaned

you had demeaned

he/she/it had demeaned

we had demeaned

you had demeaned

they had demeaned

Past perfect continuous

I had been demeaning

you had been demeaning

he/she/it had been demeaning

we had been demeaning

you had been demeaning

they had been demeaning

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will demean

you will demean

he/she/it will demean

we will demean

you will demean

they will demean

Future continuous

I will be demeaning

you will be demeaning

he/she/it will be demeaning

we will be demeaning

you will be demeaning

they will be demeaning

Future perfect

I will have demeaned

you will have demeaned

he/she/it will have demeaned

we will have demeaned

you will have demeaned

they will have demeaned

Future perfect continuous

I will have been demeaning

you will have been demeaning

he/she/it will have been demeaning

we will have been demeaning

you will have been demeaning

they will have been demeaning

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would demean

you would demean

he/she/it would demean

we would demean

you would demean

they would demean

Conditional continuous

I would be demeaning

you would be demeaning

he/she/it would be demeaning

we would be demeaning

you would be demeaning

they would be demeaning

Conditional perfect

I would have demean

you would have demean

he/she/it would have demean

we would have demean

you would have demean

they would have demean

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been demeaning

you would have been demeaning

he/she/it would have been demeaning

we would have been demeaning

you would have been demeaning

they would have been demeaning

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you demean
we let´s demean
you demean

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to demean

Past participle

demeaned

Present Participle

demeaning

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «DEMEAN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «demean» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of demean

abase · debase · degrade · humble · lower

TRANSLATION OF DEMEAN

Find out the translation of demean to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of demean from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «demean» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 贬低
• Translator English - Spanish: degradar
• English: demean
• Translator English - Hindi: पहुंचाना
• Translator English - Arabic: تحقير
• Translator English - Russian: унизить
• Translator English - Portuguese: aviltar
• Translator English - Bengali: হীন করা
• Translator English - French: rabaisser
• Translator English - Malay: Demean
• Translator English - German: erniedrigen
• Translator English - Japanese: 面目をつぶす
• Translator English - Korean: 모욕적 인 언사
• Translator English - Javanese: Demean
• Translator English - Vietnamese: hạ mình
• Translator English - Tamil: தரம்தாழ்த்தும்
• Translator English - Marathi: आचरण
• Translator English - Turkish: alçaltmak
• Translator English - Italian: sminuire
• Translator English - Polish: poniżać
• Translator English - Ukrainian: принизити
• Translator English - Romanian: înjosi
• Translator English - Greek: συμπεριφέρομαι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: verneder
• Translator English - Swedish: förr
• Translator English - Norwegian: nedverdige

10 QUOTES WITH «DEMEAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word demean.

1

Ezra Taft Benson

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

2

Louie Gohmert

The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.

3

Phil McGraw

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

4

Kenneth R. Miller

Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.

5

Inga Muscio

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

6

Iggy Pop

I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

7

Julia Quinn

I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.

8

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

9

David Sarnoff

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

10

Philip Zimbardo

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMEAN»

Discover the use of demean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to demean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others

Less Than Human is a chilling indictment of our nature, and is as timely as it is relevant.

David Livingstone Smith, 2011

An essay towards a topographical history of the county of ...

There also belongs to the said manor half a carucate of land ; there were always 4 bordarers, one servus, and one carucate in demean ; also 30 acres belong to it with one villain, and 2 bordarers ; it was always valued at 7/. and 4s.

Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin, 1807

An essay towards a topographical history of the county of ...

... 26 borders, 6 household servants, and 4 carucates in demean, and the freemen held 26 carucates ; there was a wood so large as to feed 1500 hogs, 2 mills, 60 sheep, 50 goats, 5 hives of bees, and 10 socmen, all which King William held at ...

Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin, 1807

An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of ...

Richard de Meyners, Richard de la Comb, and John de Littleweîl ; in П/ик no/ tint, 2 parts of the demean late of Ralph Fitz Gilbert, lord of The he tcsham ; — in Guitón, Hillington and Flitcham, 2 parts of the fee of ihe Earl Warren, and Richard de ...

Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin, 1808

An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of ...

... 26 borders, 6 household servants, and 4 carucates in demean, and the freemen held 26 carucates ; there was a wood so large as to feed 1500 hogs, 2 mills, 60 sheep, 60 goats, 5 hives of bees, and 10 socmen, all which King William held at ...

Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin, 1807

ABA Journal

In a startling suicide note and subsequent statements, DeMean, 18, a juvenile felon and high school dropout, claimed he and Wallace, 36, fell in love after he had pleaded guilty to a reduced murder charge in exchange for his testimony.

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An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of ...

G ^ & T L E A G R E. 495 demean of Geff. BeUomonte;— in Tatersere 2 parts of the demean of the late William de Be\k>monte; in Clyptun 2 parts of the demean of William Grancurt; ^—in Snetelham zs. of the demeans of the Earl Warren, to be  ...

Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin, 1775

A. Green and Co.'s Directory for Liverpool and Birkenhead

Brick, Edward, bootmaker, Victoria road Brockbank, Jas. house agent and grocer, 7, Shaw street Burgess, R. ale and porter vaults, Demean street Byerley, Isaac, surgeon, Victoria road Carrington, Margaret, beerseller, Victoria road Chesney ...

Green, (A.) & Co, 1870

When is Discrimination Wrong?

To demean is to treat another as not fully human or not of equal moral worth. To demean therefore is partly an expressive act. One's action expresses that the other is less worthy of concern or respect. In addition, to treat another in such a way ...

Deborah Hellman, 2008

A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage

The former is the preferred spelling. demean; bemean. Formerly, authorities on usage disapproved of demean in the sense "to lower, degrade," holding that instead it properly should be used reflexively in the sense "to conduct (oneself).

Bryan A. Garner, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMEAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term demean is used in the context of the following news items.

Hillary Clinton: Republicans demean immigrants

Hillary Clinton: Republicans demean immigrants. Published 8:07 PM CDT Jul 07, 2015. Tweet · Next Video: Baby receives first look at life after cornea transplant. «KCCI Des Moines, Jul 15»

Reid slams GOP silence on Trump

"I don't care how many people running for president on the Republican side try to demean immigrants, insult immigrants, cast aspersions on ... «The Hill, Jul 15»

Vince Staples Q&A: The Most Exciting Man in Rap Drops Knowledge

... tell you they do. They just want to feel important, and they want to demean other people 'cause it makes them feel better about themselves. «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»

Gallows humor in the age of #BlackLivesMatter: “Key & Peele …

... laughing at the stereotypes his characters embodied, or were they laughing at the people those stereotypes were used to demean? «Salon, Jul 15»

Steven Salaita Finds a Home

... will not tolerate are personal and disrespectful words ... that demean and abuse either viewpoints themselves or those who express them.". «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

Shorten faces campaign donation questions

Australians could now conclude that Labor's seeking to demean the inquiry was because issues would come to light, he said. The hearing ... «Sky News Australia, Jul 15»

Clinton steps up attacks on GOP presidential candidates in Iowa …

"How many people running on the Republican side try to demean immigrants, insult immigrants, cast aspersions on immigrants? They know as ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»

Comic Box: 'Starve' is based on a horrifying version of a TV cooking …

As a reality television competition, "Starve" has been pressed into service as yet another means of the upper class to oppress and demean the ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»

Nightline Defends Sanctuary City Laws as Having Good Intentions

HILLARY CLINTON: How many people running for president on the Republican side try to demean immigrants? HARRIS: She has supported ... «NewsBusters, Jul 15»

Civil Rights group to launch independent investigation into alleged …

“We are living in a time when folks feel that it is OK to demean and demoralize people who are of a different race. It is shameful that black ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»