Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
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.
- 2intransitive 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.
- 3intransitive verb
To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
- 4noun
a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
- 5verb
grow worse
"Her condition deteriorated"
"Conditions in the slums degenerated"
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- 6adjective
unrestrained by convention or morality
"Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"
"deplorably dissipated and degraded"
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