Degenerate

[dɪ'dʒen(ə)rət] or [dɪ'dʒɛnəret]

Definition

(a.) 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.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Deteriorate, decline, decay, become worse, grow worse.

a. Inferior, mean, base, corrupt, fallen, degenerated.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:deteriorate, grow_worse, retrograde

ANT:Recover, improve, {[Jiend]?}, advance

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Definition

adj. having departed from the high qualities of race or kind: become base—also Degen′erous (obs.).—v.i. to fall from a nobler state: to be or to grow worse.—v.i. Degen′der (Spens.) to degenerate.—ns. Degen′eracy Degenerā′tion the act or process of becoming degenerate: the state of being degenerate.—adv. Degen′erately.—n. Degen′erateness.—adj. Degen′erating.—n. Degenerā′tionist one who believes that the tendency of man is not to improve but to degenerate.—adj. Degen′erative tending or causing to degenerate.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at 'men who live in these degenerate days which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread—a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.

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