Word Study
fallen (root: fall)
CIDE DICTIONARY
fallen, a.
Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. [1913 Webster]
"Some ruined temple or fallen monument." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fallen, past part. of FALL v.
--adj.
1 (attrib.) having lost one's honour or reputation.
2 killed in war.
--adj.
1 (attrib.) having lost one's honour or reputation.
2 killed in war.
Derivative
fallenness n.
THESAURUS
fallen
Adamic, Circean, abated, ablated, all up with, animal, animalistic, apostate, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, atheistic, attenuated, ausgespielt, backsliding, bankrupt, bated, beastlike, beastly, beat, beaten, belittled, bereft of life, bested, bestial, blasphemous, blasted, blighted, bodily, breathless, broken, brutal, brute, brutish, called home, carnal, carnal-minded, carrion, coarse, confounded, consumed, contracted, croaked, curtailed, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, debased, deceased, decreased, defeated, deflated, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, depressed, desolated, destitute of life, destroyed, devastated, diminished, discomfited, dissipated, done for, done in, down, down-and-out, downcast, downthrown, dropped, earthy, eroded, erring, exanimate, fallen from grace, finished, fixed, fleshly, floored, food for worms, frail, gone, gone to glory, gone to pot, gone west, gross, harlot, hors de combat, hustling, impious, impure, in ruins, inanimate, infirm, irreligious, irremediable, irreverent, kaput, lambasted, lapsed, late, late lamented, lathered, launched into eternity, less, lesser, licked, lifeless, low, lower, lowered, martyred, material, materialistic, meretricious, miniaturized, no more, nonspiritual, not done, of easy virtue, on the, on the skids, on the town, orgiastic, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, passed on, pave, peccable, physical, postlapsarian, prodigal, profanatory, profane, prostitute, prostituted, prostrate, pushing up daisies, put to rout, rare, ravaged, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, reduced, released, renegade, reposing, resting easy, retrenched, routed, ruined, ruinous, sacrilegious, saignant, sainted, scaled-down, scarlet, scattered, settled, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, sleeping, smaller, smitten with death, sodden, spoiled, stampeded, still, stillborn, streetwalking, submerged, sunk, sunken, swinish, taken away, taken off, trimmed, trounced, unangelic, unchaste, unclean, undercooked, underdone, undone, undutiful, ungodly, ungood, unrighteous, unsaintly, unspiritual, unvirtuous, upset, virtueless, wanton, wasted, watered-down, wayward, weak, weakened, whelmed, whipped, whorish, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, worn, worsted, wreckedFor further exploring for "fallen" in Webster Dictionary Online