déclassé

See also: declasse and déclasse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déclassé.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /deɪˈklæseɪ/

Adjective

déclassé (comparative more déclassé, superlative most déclassé)

1. Degraded from one's social class.
   • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 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’.

Usage notes

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

Translations

Degraded from one's social class

• Romanian: declasat m or n; degradat
• Russian: деклассированный (ru) (deklassirovannyj)

Anagrams

• descales

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

déclassé (feminine déclassée, masculine plural déclassés, feminine plural déclassées)

1. past participle of déclasser

Adjective

déclassé (feminine déclassée, masculine plural déclassés, feminine plural déclassées)

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

Noun

déclassé m (plural déclassés, feminine déclassée)

1. an outcast, reject, pariah

Synonyms

• paria m
• rejeton m

Further reading

• “déclassé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.