degenerate
Meaning of degenerate
- One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral person.
In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.
- To lose good or desirable qualities.
His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
- To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
- (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
- (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
- (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
- Relating to degeneracy
- Having the same quantum energy level.
Information about degenerate
- The plural form of degenerate is: degenerates.
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Hyphenation of degenerate
de-gen-er-ate
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- degenerate is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
degenerate synonyms
Meaning debauched:
debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
Meaning pervert:
Meaning devolve:
Translation of degenerate
- French: dégénérer
- Spanish: degenerar
- Italian: degenerare
Words that rhyme with degenerate
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