déclassé

English

Etymology

From French déclassé.

Adjective

déclassé (comparative more déclassé, superlative most déclassé)

1. Degraded from one's social class.
   • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 110:

     Having married a plebian and so become déclassée, the daughter of a patrician was barred by the patrician matrons from sacrifices at the shrine of Patrician Chastity ‘in the cattle market by the round temple of Hercules’.

Translations

• Romanian: declasat m. and n.; degradat

Usage notes

• The feminine form déclassée is often used with female subjects.

Anagrams

• descales

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French

Verb form

déclassé

1. past participle of déclasser

Adjective

déclassé m. (f. déclassée, m. plural déclassés, f. plural déclassées)

1. (literally) stricken from the classification, no longer listed
2. outcast, expelled

Noun

déclassé m. (plural déclassés; feminine déclassée, plural déclassées)

1. An outcast, reject, pariah

Synonyms

• paria m.
• rejeton m.