degenerate

noun

  1. 1

    One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral person.

    In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.

verb

  1. 1

    To lose good or desirable qualities.

    His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
  2. 2

    To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

adjective

  1. 1

    (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.

  2. 2

    (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.

  3. 3

    (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.

  4. 4

    Relating to degeneracy

  5. 5

    Having the same quantum energy level.

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