- DEGENERATE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
degenerate adjective formal disapproving having very low moral standards of behaviour: a degenerate young man
- DEGENERATE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Degenerate definition: to fall below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate See examples of DEGENERATE used in a sentence
- DEGENERATE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If you describe a person or their behaviour as degenerate, you disapprove of them because you think they have low standards of behaviour or morality
- Degenerate - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
If something degenerates, it gets worse, like a food fight that degenerates to an all-out spaghetti-throwing war Degenerate can also describe an immoral person — or the behavior of such a person
- degenerate - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
degraded: a degenerate king having lost, or become impaired with respect to, the qualities proper to the race or kind: a degenerate vine characterized by or associated with degeneracy: degenerate times Mathematics pertaining to a limiting case of a mathematical system that is more symmetrical or simpler in form than the general case Physics
- degenerate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
degenerate (comparative more degenerate, superlative most degenerate) (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal
- Degenerate - definition of degenerate by The Free Dictionary
1 to decline in physical, mental, or moral qualities; deteriorate 2 to diminish in quality; fall from a high or normal standard: The debate degenerated into a brawl
- degenerate, adj. n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . .
There are 13 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word degenerate, one of which is labelled obsolete, and four of which are considered offensive See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
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