adjective. Having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state.

adjective. Morally corrupt or given to vice.

adjective. Relating to two or more quantum states that share the same quantum numbers.

adjective. Characterized by great density and consisting of atoms stripped of electrons.

adjective. Characterized by degeneration, as of tissue, a cell, or an organ.

adjective. Having lost one or more highly developed functions, characteristics, or structures through evolution.

adjective. Relating to or being a gene that has multiple codons for the same amino acid.

noun. A depraved or corrupt person.

intransitive verb. To fall below a normal or desirable state, especially functionally or morally; deteriorate.

intransitive verb. To decline in quality.

intransitive verb. To undergo degeneration.

To lose, or become impaired with respect to, the qualities proper to the race or kind, or to a prototype; become of a lower type.

Specifically To decay in quality; pass to an inferior or a worse state; suffer a decline in character or constitution; deteriorate.

Synonyms To deteriorate, decline.

Having lost, or become impaired with respect to, the qualities proper to the race or kind; having been reduced to a lower type.

Specifically Having fallen into a less excellent or a worse state; having declined in physical or moral qualities; deteriorated; degraded.

Characterized by or associated with degeneracy; unworthy; debased: applied to inanimate objects.

noun. One who has retrograded from a normal type or standard, especially in moral nature and character, and exhibits certain morbid physical and mental traits and tendencies.

intransitive verb. To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.

intransitive verb. To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.

adjective. Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.

noun. a person who has declined from a high standard, especially a sexual deviate; -- usually used disparagingly or opprobriously of persons whose sexual behavior does not conform to the norms of accepted morals.

noun. a person or thing that has fallen from a higher to a lower state, or reverted to an earlier type or stage of development or culture.

adjective. having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to an undesirable and typically abnormal

adjective. having lost good or desirable qualities

adjective. having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range

adjective. 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.

adjective. Having the same quantum energy level

noun. One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.

verb. (of humans or systems) to lose good or desirable qualities;

verb. grow worse

adjective. unrestrained by convention or morality

noun. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

"I can think of no more potent objection to such inclusive use of the term degenerate, than the fact that Lombroso includes, under the signs of degeneration, the enormous development of the cerebral speech-area in the case of an accomplished orator."

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degenerate form  

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degenerate matter  degenerated  degenerating  degeneration  

cogenerate  generate  regenerate  venerate  

barbarous  contemptible  corrupt  cowardly  degrade  

abandoned  adulterate  alloy  alter  altered  

degenerated  degenerates  degenerating