Degenerate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEGENERATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pass from a higher to a lower type or condition
• decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally
• 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.
• To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
NOUN:
• an immoral or corrupt person
• a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
ADJECTIVE:
• base, immoral
• having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline
• lacking some usual or expected property or quality.
• (of a type of equation, curve, etc.) equivalent to a simpler type, especially when a variable or parameter is set to zero.
• (of an energy level) corresponding to more than one quantum state.
• (of matter) at densities so high that gravitational contraction is counteracted, either by the Pauli exclusion principle or by an analogous quantum effect between closely packed neutrons.
• having reverted to a simpler form as a result of losing a complex or adaptive structure present in the ancestral form
• 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.
• unrestrained by convention or morality
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state; having sunk to a condition below that which is normal to a type; having sunk to a lower and usually corrupt and vicious state; degraded

Words related to DEGENERATE

degenerated14 degenerately17 degenerateness16 degenerates13 degenerating15

Words that contain DEGENERATE

degenerated14 degenerates13 degenerately17 nondegenerate15 degenerateness16 nondegenerates16 degeneratenesse17 degeneratenesses18

How to use DEGENERATE in a sentence

• It is needless to enter into a controversy, which, by the terms of it, must necessarily degenerate into a dispute of words.
• It calls us to certain occupations that dissipate the mind, and that may degenerate into mere amusement.
• Yet this miserable degenerate, in order to gain several short years of liberty for himself, succeeded in adding a fair portion of eternity to my own lifetime term.
• But we sincerely hope, that by the next arrival, it will not degenerate into a cow, or worse, a goat.
• In the latter case, so far at least as the world is concerned, justice would degenerate into scandal, whilst great evil and little good must be the consequence.
• It is an answer to those who say that it is a degenerate constitution.
• Here I am, on top of a dirty thirty miles, as knocked up and stiff and sore as a pink-tea degenerate after a five-mile walk on a country turn-pike.
• Alexander Harvey makes AEneas look like a degenerate.
• In fact, the Anatolian Turk is still a good Mohammedan of the time of Solyman, and not one of the degenerate race of Stamboul.
• She wanted to laugh, but was a little afraid that this laughter might degenerate into incipient hysteria.
• The souls are either bloodthirsty wolves or beasts with degenerate reason.
• Other writers quote instances where whole communities have become degenerate.
• Here, in the midst of the days he considered so degenerate, he had found the very ideal of his heart.
• Thank God for the Penrhyn graft! Let us hope that it will do as much good as its fairest flower has already done the degenerate scion of all the Dartmouths.
• If life is made too easy, men will settle into indolent sterility, just as animals and plants degenerate with too much food.
• Granting a primal religion relatively pure in its beginnings, why did it degenerate? Mr.
• It was born of my sharp jealousy, my present weariness of Pennybet, and my heroic resolution to rescue Doe from the degenerate hands of Freedham.
• Then, under the influence either of poverty or of wealth, workmen and their work are equally liable to degenerate? That is evident.
• Want of care, the flight of time, a thousand things, cause us to degenerate.
• He was at any rate anxious that they should not degenerate into excesses.
• A degenerate person, who has to earn his own livelihood, is much more likely to become a criminal than another degenerate person who has not.
• The editors will have to take care that the discussions do not degenerate into one-sided propaganda, but so must the editors of a printed magazine.

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