degenerate

degenerate is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. 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.
2. intransitive verb. 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.
3. intransitive verb. To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
4. noun. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

   Synonyms: deviant, deviate, pervert

5. verb. grow worse

   "Her condition deteriorated"

   "Conditions in the slums degenerated"

   Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop

6. adjective. unrestrained by convention or morality

   "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"

   "deplorably dissipated and degraded"

   Synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous

Synonyms

deviant, deviate, pervert, deteriorate, devolve, drop, debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous

Common word forms

degenerated, degenerates, degenerately, degenerating, degenerateness

Words from these letters

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