DEGENERATE
\dɪd͡ʒˈɛnəɹˌe͡ɪt], \dɪdʒˈɛnəɹˌeɪt], \d_ɪ_dʒ_ˈɛ_n_ə_ɹ_ˌeɪ_t]\
Definitions of DEGENERATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
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a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
By Princeton University
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unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
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a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To be or grow worse; to decline; to become inferior in goodness or quality; deteriorate.
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Of a low grade of morals; deteriorated; degraded; as, degenerate offspring.
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A person or organism that has become worse than its kind; a person of low morals.
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Degenerately.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Degenerately.
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To become worse; decline; deteriorate.
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Deteriorated; degraded.
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A deteriorated or degraded individual.
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Degenerateness.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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