demeaned

comparative more demeaned · superlative most demeaned

1. Debased; degraded; lowly.

   Wearing make-up made her feel "very degraded and very demeaned."

   2019, Zachary Kramer, Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights, page 20

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   One last consolation, however, was left to the casual poor and naturally enough they tended to clutch at it: their women could be more demeaned, more lowly, than they.

   1999, Miriam Dixson, The Real Matilda, page 79

   Antiope is the more demeaned that she was violated by so outrageous a figure of ribaldry and degradation.

   2010, Aida Besancon Spencer, Donna F.G. Hailson, Catherine Clark Kroeger, The Goddess Revival, page 71

2. mathematicsHaving had the mean subtracted from all values.

   A demeaned version of this time series x is depicted in ( B ) .

   2011, Mario Heiderich, Eduardo Alberto Vela Nava, Gareth Heyes, Web Application Obfuscation, page 93

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   The 0-crossings in a demeaned signal can indicate the dominant frequency component in a signal.

   2006, Wim van Drongelen, Signal Processing for Neuroscientists, page 68

   To pursue the analogy between a driftless random walk and a Wiener process a bit further, consider a “demeaned standard random walk" which is constructed from a standard driftless random walk by subtracting the sample mean.

   2011, Fumio Hayashi, Econometrics, page 568

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of demean