Meaning

7 senses
  1. Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.

    entartet

    дегради́ровавшийdegradírovavšij

  2. Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.

    widernatürlich, dekadent, degeneriert

    вы́родившийсяvýrodivšijsja, вы́рожденныйvýroždennyj, опусти́вшийсяopustívšijsja

    ви́родженийvýrodženyj

  3. Having lost functionality in general.

  4. Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.

    The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.

    вы́рожденныйvýroždennyj

  5. Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.

    A degenerate circle, having radius zero, consists of a single point.

    вы́рожденныйvýroždennyj

  6. Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.

  7. Having the same quantum energy level.

    entartet

    вы́рожденныйvýroždennyj

More definitions
  • unrestrained by convention or morality

Examples

13 sentences
  1. Don't allow your muscles to degenerate.

  2. Standards of art are slowly degenerate.

  3. The meeting degenerated into a vicious brawl.

  4. Live can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar.

    deDas Leben kann so leicht in etwas Schmutziges und Vulgäres entarten. — Tickler

  5. There remain great fears of seeing the clashes degenerate into massacres.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
having lost good or desirable qualities:
Русский
By meaning 2
having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal:
having lost good or desirable qualities:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal:
having lost good or desirable qualities:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin dēgenerātus. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

Learned borrowing from Latin dēgenerātus. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

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Forms

more degenerate, most degenerate
Comparativemore degenerate Lesson
Superlativemost degenerate Lesson

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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