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Degenerate
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Degenerate Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Degenerate?
[n] a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
[adj] unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [v] grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated" Synonyms | Synonyms for Degenerate: debauched | degraded | deteriorate | deviant | deviate | dissipated | dissolute | drop | fast | immoral | libertine | pervert | profligate | riotous Related Terms | Find terms related to Degenerate: 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 See Also | bugger | child molester | decline | fade | fatigue | fetishist | jade | languish | lecher | masochist | miscreant | nympho | nymphomaniac | paederast | paedophile | pall | pederast | pedophile | reprobate | rot | sadist | sadomasochist | satyr | sod | sodomist | sodomite | tire | waste | weary | worsen Degenerate In Webster's Dictionary \De*gen"er*ate\, a. [L. degeneratus, p. p. of
degenerare to degenerate, cause to degenerate, fr. degener
base, degenerate, that departs from its race or kind; de- +
genus race, kind. See {Kin} relationship.]
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.
Faint-hearted and degenerate king. --Shak.
A degenerate and degraded state. --Milton.
Degenerate from their ancient blood. --Swift.
These degenerate days. --Pope.
I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art
thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine
unto me? --Jer. ii. 21.
\De*gen"er*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Degenerated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Degenerating}.] 1. 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. When wit transgresseth decency, it degenerates into insolence and impiety. --Tillotson. 2. (Biol.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type. |
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