what does it mean if you get called a retrobate?

Question

sorry, i meant reprobate

sorry, i did mean retrobate after all, im am writing the question for someone else

Answer 1

A retrobate is apparently an idiot who is stuck in the past, also known as "retrobater". I've never heard of that word before.
Did you mean reprobate? Thats a more common word, and it is a morally unprincipled person, someone who does not know the difference between right and wrong or moral and ammoral values.

Answer 2

I have read the other answers, and assume you mean reprobate - which is not really a compliment.

If not, then retrobate it not in my book. But I will try.

Retro means yesterday, last year, or last century.
Bate is something you use for fishing or hunting.

So retrobate, presumably, means last years maggots!

Answer 3

Retrobate

Answer 4

Reprobrate is a terrible word driving from the religion of Calvinism it means somebody immoral or to condemn them.

Answer 5

Retrobate
n. One who can't, or who refuses to walk the bleeding edge of technology, preferring old, reliable tools. I.e. one who shuns PDAs for notebooks, pencils and pocket calendars; would rather meet in real life than on MySpace; and who'd still shoot with cameras which require film.

Answer 6

–noun 1. a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
2. a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.
–adjective 3. morally depraved; unprincipled; bad.
4. rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.
–verb (used with object) 5. to disapprove, condemn, or censure.
6. (of God) to reject (a person), as for sin; exclude from the number of the elect or from salvation.

Answer 7

Are you sure you don't mean "reprobate?" If so, it is a good-for-nothing, degenerate. Not exactly a compliment.

Answer 8

A waster

Answer 9

quote:
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1. somebody immoral: a disreputable or immoral person
2 RELIGION somebody damned: somebody whose soul is believed to be damned.
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and the On-line Etymological Dictionary said:

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reprobate (adj)
1545,”rejected as worthless” from L.L. reprobates, pp. of reprobare “disapprove, reject, condemn,” from L. re-” opposite of, reversal of previous condition” + probare” prove to be worthy” (see probate. The noun is recorded from 1545, “one rejected by God.” Sense of “abandoned or unprincipled person” is from 1592. Earliest form of the word in Eng. Was a verb, meaning “to disapprove” (1432)

Answer 10

i broke it down to this

re-- t-- rob ---ate

....by process of elimination and reconfiguration i came to this clever conclusion......
re----repeat
rob---steal
ate--- past tense of eat

steal again to eat yesterday!!!!!
hahahaaaaaaaaa......mind blowing
lol