degenerate
IPA: dɪdʒˈɛnɝʌt
noun
- One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.
verb
- (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
- (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
adjective
- (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
- (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
- (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
- (mathematics) Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.
- (mathematics, of an eigenvalue) Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
- (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
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Examples of "degenerate" in Sentences
- The disease was degenerated due to the cold weather.
- The fate of the degenerate artists was varied, but harsh.
- Replacing the word decadent with degenerate is hardly creative.
- The cone and the cylinder are equivalent to the degenerate form.
- In February 1939, the situation of the pontiff visibly degenerated.
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