degenerate

[De*gen·er*ate]

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.

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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 whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

Verb
grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"

Adjective S.
unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

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.

Degenerate

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.

A degenerate and degraded state.

Degenerate from their ancient blood.

These degenerate days.

I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

Degenerate

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.

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

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.

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.

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Usage Examples

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

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Other Usage Examples

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.