degeneration

degeneration is a 12-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
2. noun. That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
3. noun. A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
4. noun. The thing degenerated.
5. noun. passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

   Synonyms: retrogression

6. noun. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

   Synonyms: devolution

7. noun. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

   Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneracy

Synonyms

retrogression, devolution, decadence, decadency, degeneracy

Common word forms

degenerations

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