base
adjective/beɪs/
/beɪs/
(comparative baser, superlative basest)
(formal)- having no moral principles or rules
- He acted from base motives.
Homophones base | bassbase bassTopics Personal qualitiesc2/beɪs//beɪs/- base noun
- Cut the stalks at their base.
- base verb
- The government is to base its decision on the results of these trials.
- base adjective
- The trolls typify all that is base and ugly in human nature.
- bass noun
- This song is all treble and no bass.
- bass adjective
- His powerful bass voice contributed much to the film.
Word Originadjective late Middle English: from Old French bas, from medieval Latin bassus ‘short’ (found in classical Latin as a type of nickname). Early senses included ‘low, short’ and ‘of inferior quality’; from the latter arose a sense ‘low in the social scale’, and hence (mid 16th cent.) ‘reprehensibly cowardly, selfish, or mean’.
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