demeaned

English

Adjective

demeaned (comparative more demeaned, superlative most demeaned)

1. Debased; degraded; lowly.
   • 1999, Miriam Dixson, The Real Matilda, page 79:

     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.

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

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

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

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

2. (statistics) Having had the mean subtracted from all values.
   • 2006, Wim van Drongelen, Signal Processing for Neuroscientists, page 68:

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

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

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

   • 2011, Fumio Hayashi, Econometrics, page 568:

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

Derived terms

• undemeaned

 

Verb

demeaned

1. simple past and past participle of demean