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Word: Base
Speech Type: Adjective
late Middle English: from Old French bas, from medieval Latin bassus ‘short’ (found in classical Latin as a cognomen). Early senses included ‘low, short’ and ‘of inferior quality’; from the latter arose a sense ‘low in the social scale’, and hence (mid 16th century) ‘reprehensibly cowardly, selfish, or mean’
beɪs
without moral principles; ignoble
Short Definition:without moral principles
Examples:- the electorate's baser instincts of greed and selfishness
denoting or befitting a person of low social class.
Short Definition:denoting or befitting person of low social class
(of coins or other articles) not made of precious metal
Short Definition:(of coins or other articles) not made of precious metal
Examples:- the basest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD
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