cankered

The word “cankered” has 2 syllables: can-kered

It's pronounced as /ˈkæŋkərd/


What is synonym and antonym for cankered?

In the thesaurus, “cankered” has 54 synonyms and 21 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for cankered along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for cankered

  • abased
  • bastardized
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • blemished
  • cheapened
  • contaminated
  • corrupted
  • damaged
  • debased
  • debauched
  • defaced
  • defiled
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • depraved
  • depreciated
  • descended
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • diluted
  • dirtied
  • disgraced
  • dishonored
  • downgraded
  • flawed
  • harmed
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • hurt
  • impaired
  • lessened
  • marred
  • perverted
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • profaned
  • prostituted
  • ruined
  • shamed
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stained
  • subverted
  • tainted
  • tarnished
  • thinned
  • took down
  • vitiated
  • warped
  • watered down
  • weakened
  • wrecked

Antonyms for cankered

  • ameliorated
  • amended
  • bettered
  • clarified
  • cleaned
  • cleansed
  • dignified
  • elevated
  • enhanced
  • ennobled
  • enriched
  • exalted
  • honored
  • improved
  • meliorated
  • perfected
  • purified
  • refined
  • respected
  • restored
  • uplifted

Meanings of cankered

  • adjective
    1. Infected with a canker or having a cankerous part.
    2. Ulcerated.
    3. Corrupted; morally corrupt.
    4. Bad-tempered.
  • verb
    1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
    2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
    3. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
    4. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

Example Sentences

  • The tree's branches were cankered by a disease that spread quickly.
  • His heart was cankered with bitterness after the betrayal.
  • The garden's soil was cankered with pests that destroyed the crops.
  • She noticed the cankered area on the wall where moisture had caused damage.
  • The wound became infected and cankered after days of neglect.

On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to cankered, such as: abased, ameliorated, amended, bastardized, befouled, begrimed, bettered.

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Related Words

abased

  • abandoned
  • abashed
  • affronted
  • bad-mouthed
  • baneful
  • baseborn
  • bastard
  • bastardized
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • belittled
  • blemished
  • boorish
  • cankered
  • castigated
  • censured
  • chastened
  • cheapened
  • clinging
  • common
  • condemned
  • confounded
  • confused
  • contaminated
  • corrupted
  • counting on
  • cried down
  • criticized
  • damaged
  • damned
  • debased
  • debauched
  • decried
  • defaced
  • defamed
  • defenseless
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • degraded
  • deleterious
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • denounced
  • depraved
  • depreciated
  • descended
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • detracted
  • diluted
  • diminished
  • dirtied
  • discomfited
  • disconcerted
  • discounted
  • discountenanced
  • discredited
  • disgraced
  • dishonored
  • disparaged
  • dissolute
  • downgraded
  • embarrassed
  • evil
  • execrated
  • fazed
  • flagitious
  • flawed
  • flustered
  • fouled
  • harmed
  • humble
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • hurt
  • ignoble
  • illegitimate
  • immature
  • impaired
  • indigent
  • infamous
  • inferior
  • insulted
  • junior
  • knavish
  • lessened
  • lesser
  • libeled
  • libelled
  • loose
  • low
  • lower-class
  • lowered
  • lowly
  • maligned
  • marred
  • mean
  • mercenary
  • minimized
  • minor
  • miscreant
  • monstrous
  • mortified
  • nefarious
  • nonaristocratic
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • ordinary
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • plain
  • plebeian
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • poor
  • profaned
  • profligate
  • prostituted
  • put down
  • rattled
  • reliant
  • relying on
  • reprehended
  • reprobated
  • ridiculed
  • rotten
  • ruined
  • sank
  • secondary
  • shamed
  • slandered
  • smirched
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stained
  • subordinate
  • subverted
  • sunk
  • tainted
  • tarnished
  • thinned
  • tied to apron strings
  • took down
  • under
  • under thumb
  • ungenteel
  • unsustaining
  • venal
  • villainous
  • vitiated
  • vulnerable
  • warped
  • watered down
  • weakened
  • wrecked
  • wrote off

debased

  • abased
  • abashed
  • affronted
  • bad
  • bad-mouthed
  • base
  • bastardized
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • belittled
  • bent
  • blemished
  • cankered
  • castigated
  • censured
  • chastened
  • cheapened
  • condemned
  • confounded
  • confused
  • contaminated
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • cried down
  • criticized
  • crooked
  • cutthroat
  • damaged
  • damned
  • debauched
  • decadent
  • decried
  • defaced
  • defamed
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • denounced
  • depraved
  • depreciated
  • descended
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • detracted
  • diluted
  • diminished
  • dirtied
  • discomfited
  • disconcerted
  • discounted
  • discountenanced
  • discredited
  • disgraced
  • dishonest
  • dishonored
  • disparaged
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • downgraded
  • embarrassed
  • evil
  • execrated
  • fazed
  • flawed
  • flustered
  • fouled
  • harmed
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • hurt
  • immoral
  • impaired
  • iniquitous
  • insulted
  • jackleg
  • lessened
  • libeled
  • libelled
  • libertine
  • loose
  • lowered
  • maligned
  • marred
  • minimized
  • miscreant
  • mortified
  • nefarious
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • profaned
  • prostituted
  • put down
  • rakehell
  • rakehelly
  • rakish
  • rattled
  • reprehended
  • reprobate
  • reprobated
  • ridiculed
  • ruined
  • sank
  • shamed
  • sick
  • sinful
  • slandered
  • smirched
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stained
  • subverted
  • sunk
  • tainted
  • tarnished
  • thinned
  • took down
  • unclean
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
  • unscrupulous
  • unwholesome
  • vicious
  • vitiated
  • warped
  • watered down
  • weakened
  • wicked
  • wrecked
  • wrote off

debauched

  • abandoned
  • abased
  • bad
  • bastardized
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • bent
  • blemished
  • cankered
  • cheapened
  • contaminated
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • crooked
  • cutthroat
  • damaged
  • debased
  • decadent
  • defaced
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • depraved
  • depreciated
  • descended
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • diluted
  • dirtied
  • disgraced
  • dishonest
  • dishonored
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • downgraded
  • drunk
  • evil
  • fast
  • flawed
  • gone bad
  • gone to the dogs
  • harmed
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • hurt
  • immoral
  • impaired
  • in the gutter
  • iniquitous
  • jackleg
  • lessened
  • libertine
  • licentious
  • loose
  • marred
  • miscreant
  • nefarious
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • profaned
  • profligate
  • prostituted
  • rakehell
  • rakehelly
  • rakish
  • reprobate
  • ruined
  • shamed
  • sick
  • sinful
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stained
  • subverted
  • tainted
  • tarnished
  • thinned
  • took down
  • unclean
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
  • unscrupulous
  • unwholesome
  • vicious
  • vitiate
  • vitiated
  • wanton
  • warped
  • watered down
  • weakened
  • wicked
  • wrecked

warped

  • abandoned
  • abased
  • aberrant
  • abnormal
  • abused
  • accessory
  • aching
  • adhering
  • adulterated
  • agee
  • aggrieved
  • agonized
  • all torn up
  • amiss
  • anfractuous
  • angled
  • angular
  • apparent
  • arced
  • arched
  • arciform
  • askew
  • aslant
  • asymmetric
  • asymmetrical
  • awry
  • bad
  • banded
  • barred
  • base
  • bastardized
  • battered
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • belied
  • below par
  • bent
  • biased
  • bigoted
  • bitter
  • blamable
  • bleeding
  • blemished
  • blind
  • blocked
  • botched
  • bottom-of-the-barrel
  • bowdlerized
  • bowed
  • braided
  • broken
  • bruised
  • buckled
  • buffeted
  • bunched
  • burned
  • busted up
  • camouflaged
  • cankered
  • casual
  • catawampus
  • caught
  • censored
  • chauvinistic
  • cheapened
  • circuitous
  • clinched
  • cliquish
  • clogged
  • clumped
  • clustered
  • cockeyed
  • coiled
  • colored
  • complicated
  • confounded
  • confused
  • conspiratorial
  • contaminated
  • contorted
  • contused
  • cooked
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • cosmetic
  • cracked
  • cramped
  • crooked
  • crushed
  • curled
  • cursory
  • curved
  • curvilinear
  • curving
  • cut
  • cutthroat
  • cynical
  • damaged
  • debased
  • debauched
  • decadent
  • defaced
  • defective
  • deficient
  • defiled
  • deformed
  • degenerate
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • denominational
  • depraved
  • depreciated
  • depthless
  • descended
  • destroyed
  • desultory
  • deteriorated
  • deviant
  • deviating
  • devious
  • devoted
  • die-hard
  • diluted
  • dirtied
  • dirty
  • dirty-minded
  • disapproving
  • discriminatory
  • disfigured
  • disgraced
  • disguised
  • dishonest
  • dishonored
  • disjointed
  • disposed
  • disproportional
  • disproportionate
  • dissembled
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • distorted
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dogmatic
  • doubled over
  • downgraded
  • droll
  • drooping
  • droopy
  • dry
  • dud
  • eccentric
  • empty
  • engaged
  • entangled
  • envious
  • equivocated
  • errant
  • erroneous
  • evident
  • evil
  • exclusive
  • exterior
  • external
  • fallacious
  • fallible
  • false
  • falsified
  • fanatic
  • far-out
  • fast
  • fastened
  • faulty
  • favorably inclined
  • few bugs
  • fibbed
  • filthy
  • fixed
  • flagitous
  • flash
  • flawed
  • flimsy
  • foreign
  • frail
  • frivolous
  • frozen
  • fudged
  • garbage
  • garbled
  • general
  • glib
  • gnarled
  • gone to the dogs
  • grazed
  • grotesque
  • grudging
  • half-baked
  • harmed
  • hasty
  • hit
  • hitched
  • hooked
  • hostile
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • humpbacked
  • humped
  • hunchbacked
  • hunched
  • hurried
  • hurt
  • ignorant
  • ill-made
  • immature
  • immoral
  • immovable
  • impaired
  • imperfect
  • imprecise
  • in pain
  • inaccurate
  • inadequate
  • inattentive
  • inclinatory
  • inclined
  • incomplete
  • incurving
  • indignant
  • indirect
  • inexact
  • influenced
  • iniquitous
  • injured
  • insufficient
  • interested
  • intertwined
  • intolerant
  • invalid
  • ironic
  • irregular
  • jackleg
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • junk
  • kinky
  • knotted
  • knotty
  • knurly
  • lacerated
  • lame
  • lascivious
  • lashed
  • lassoed
  • leaky
  • lemon
  • lessened
  • lewd
  • libertine
  • licentious
  • lied
  • lightweight
  • limited
  • limp
  • linked
  • lodged
  • looped
  • loose
  • lopsided
  • low
  • maimed
  • malformed
  • malfunctioning
  • mangled
  • marred
  • masked
  • mauled
  • mean
  • meandering
  • meshed
  • miffed
  • minded
  • minus
  • miscreant
  • misdescribed
  • misguided
  • misinterpreted
  • misproportioned
  • misrelated
  • misrepresented
  • misshaped
  • misshapen
  • misspoke
  • misstated
  • mistook
  • mistranslated
  • misused
  • mocking
  • monstrous
  • mutilated
  • mystified
  • narrow
  • narrow-minded
  • nefarious
  • nicked
  • nodding
  • nonsymmetrical
  • not straight
  • oblique
  • obscured
  • obstinate
  • obstructed
  • odd
  • off-balance
  • offended
  • on the surface
  • one-dimensional
  • one-sided
  • opinionated
  • opprobrious
  • ostensible
  • out of order
  • out of shape
  • outlandish
  • outraged
  • outre
  • outward
  • overbalanced
  • overzealous
  • pained
  • paltered
  • partial
  • partisan
  • passing
  • patchy
  • peculiar
  • perfunctory
  • peripheral
  • perplexed
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • piqued
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • preconceived
  • predisposed
  • prejudiced
  • prepossessed
  • prevaricated
  • profaned
  • profligate
  • prostituted
  • put away
  • putrid
  • quick-fix
  • quirky
  • rakehell
  • rakehelly
  • rakish
  • rambling
  • rank
  • reprobate
  • resentful
  • rotten
  • round
  • roundabout
  • rounded
  • rudimentary
  • rueful
  • ruined
  • sad
  • sandwiched
  • sardonic
  • scarred
  • schlocky
  • scraped
  • scratched
  • screwed
  • screwy
  • sectarian
  • seeming
  • seized
  • serpentine
  • shallow
  • shamed
  • shameless
  • shoal
  • shook
  • shot
  • sick
  • silly
  • sinful
  • sinuous
  • skeptical
  • sketchy
  • skewed
  • skin-deep
  • slanted
  • slapdash
  • slight
  • slouchy
  • slumped
  • small-minded
  • smattery
  • snagged
  • snaky
  • snarled
  • sore
  • spiral
  • spiraled
  • spiralled
  • spiteful
  • spliced
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • squinched
  • squint
  • stained
  • stiff
  • stooped
  • strange
  • stricken
  • struck
  • subverted
  • suffering
  • summary
  • surface
  • suspicious
  • swollen
  • sympathetic
  • tainted
  • tampered-with
  • tangled
  • tarnished
  • tendentious
  • tender
  • thinned
  • tilted
  • tilting
  • tip of the iceberg
  • took down
  • top-heavy
  • topsy-turvy
  • tortile
  • tortuous
  • tortured
  • trammeled
  • trivial
  • twined
  • twisted
  • twisting
  • two-bit
  • ugly
  • umbrageous
  • unbalanced
  • unclean
  • unconventional
  • uncritical
  • undeveloped
  • unequal
  • unethical
  • uneven
  • unfair
  • unfinished
  • unfit
  • unfriendly
  • unhappy
  • unhealthy
  • unindifferent
  • unjust
  • unnatural
  • unprincipled
  • unreasoning
  • unreliable
  • unretentive
  • unscrupulous
  • unshapely
  • unsound
  • unsteady
  • unusual
  • unwholesome
  • unworkable
  • veiled
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vitiate
  • vitiated
  • wanton
  • watered down
  • weak
  • weakened
  • wedged
  • weird
  • whirled
  • whitewashed
  • wicked
  • wilted
  • winded
  • winding
  • wound
  • wounded
  • wreathed
  • wrecked
  • wrenched
  • wrested
  • wrong
  • wrung
  • yellow
  • zealous
  • zigzag

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