degenerate

Plural: degenerates

Noun

• a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
• One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.

Verb

• grow worse
  • "Conditions in the slums degenerated"
• To lose good or desirable qualities.
• To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

Adjective Satellite

• unrestrained by convention or morality

Adj

• Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
• Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
• Having lost functionality in general.
• Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
• Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.
• Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
• Having the same quantum energy level.

Examples

• A degenerate circle, having radius zero, consists of a single point.
• His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
• In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.
• The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.

Synonyms

debauched, degraded, deteriorate, deviant, deviate, devolve, dissipated, dissolute, drop, fast, libertine, pervert, profligate, riotous

Antonyms

recuperate

Related Words

regenerate, ungenerate

Anagrams of degenerate