Degenerate

Adjective

 * 1) (of qualities) having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and  desirable to an undesirable and typically abnormal
 * 2) (of a human or system) having lost good or desirable qualities
 * 3) (of an encoding or function) having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range
 * ''The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.
 * 1)  a degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.

Noun

 * 1) One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
 * You are a degenerate, boy. You're a disgrace to your ancestors.

Verb

 * 1)  (of humans or systems) to lose good or desirable qualities;
 * His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.

Adjectives for Degenerate
unmoral; lazy; pathological; hopeless; irretrievable.

Adverbs for Degenerate
grossly; outrageously; poisonously; corruptly; viciously; brutally; shabbily; effetely; decrepitly; dangerously; hopelessly; helplessly; woefully; abjectly; disgracefully; infamously; contemptibly; shamefully

Synonyms for Degenerate
deteriorate, decline, demoralize, corrupt, worsen, decay, debauch, debase, sink.

Antonyms for Degenerate
improve, ameliorate.

Derived terms

 * degeneration
 * degenerate matter

Thesaurus
abandoned, adulterate, alloy, alter, altered, ameliorate, apostate, apostatize, backslide, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, base, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, black sheep, bottom out, break, canker, change, changeable, changed, cheapen, checker, chop, chop and change, coarsen, come about, come apart, come around, come down, come round, coming apart, confound, contaminate, contaminated, converted, corrupt, corrupted, cracking, crumbling, debase, debased, debauch, debauched, debauchee, decadent, decay, decayed, decline, declining, defect, defile, deflower, degrade, degraded, denature, deprave, depraved, descend, desecrate, desert, despoil, deteriorate, deteriorating, devalue, deviant, deviate, disimprove, disintegrate, disintegrating, dissolute, dissolve into chaos, distort, diverge, divergent, diversify, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, err, fading, failing, fall, fall back, fallen angel, falling, flagging, flagitious, flop, fragmenting, get worse, go astray, go downhill, go to pot, go wrong, going to pieces, grow worse, haul around, have a comedown, hit rock bottom, ignoble, improve, improved, infamous, infect, inferior, jibe, languishing, lapse, lecher, let down, lost sheep, lost soul, low, marcescent, meliorate, metamorphosed, metastasized, miscreant, misuse, mitigate, modified, modulate, morally polluted, mutant, mutate, nefarious, overripe, pervert, perverted, pimp, pining, poison, pollute, polluted, profligate, prostitute, qualified, rake, rakehell, ravage, ravish, reach the depths, rebuilt, recidivist, recreant, reformed, regress, regressive, relapse, renegade, renege, renewed, reprobate, retrograde, retrogress, retrogressive, return, revert, revive, revived, revolutionary, rot, rotten, roue, scapegrace, shift, shriveling, sicken, sink, sinking, slacken, sliding, slip, slip back, slipping, slumping, sorry lot, steeped in iniquity, subsiding, subversive, swerve, tabetic, tack, taint, tainted, take a turn, touch bottom, traitorous, transformed, translated, transmuted, treasonable, trip, trollop, turn, turn against, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn traitor, twist, ulcerate, undergo a change, unhealthy, unmitigated, untune, vary, veer, vice-corrupted, vicious, vile, villainous, violate, vitiate, vitiated, vulgarize, waning, warp, warped, wasting, wastrel, weaken, whore, wilting, withering, worse, worsen, worsening

Etymology
< degeneratus:, past participle of degenerare: < degener: < de: + genus:; see genus, general.

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: изроден, дегенерирал
 * Chinese: 惡化 變質
 * Hebrew: מנוון (menuvan)


 * Polish: degenerat
 * Romanian: degenerat, degenerată, degenerați, degenerate, degradat


 * Hungarian: elfajult


 * Polish: degenerat

Noun

 * Russian:, дегенерат

Verb

 * Bulgarian: израждам се, дегенерирам
 * Chinese: 惡化
 * French:
 * Ido: degenerar


 * Italian:
 * Polish: degenerować się
 * Romanian: degenera, degrada

Adjective
degenerate


 * 1) Feminine plural form of degenerato

Noun
degenerate



Verb
degenerate