degenerate
adjective
• having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
• "a degenerate form of a higher civilization"
• lacking some usual or expected property or quality.
Similar:
corrupt,
decadent,
dissolute,
dissipated,
debauched,
rakish,
reprobate,
profligate,
depraved,
perverted,
despicable,
base,
vice-ridden,
wicked,
sinful,
ungodly,
immoral,
unprincipled,
amoral,
dishonourable,
disreputable,
unsavoury,
sordid,
low,
mean,
ignoble,
lewd,
lecherous,
lascivious,
licentious,
libidinous,
loose,
promiscuous,
wanton,
libertine,
intemperate,
pervy,
degenerate
noun
• an immoral or corrupt person.
• "get out of my house, you degenerate!"
Similar:
reprobate,
debauchee,
rake,
profligate,
libertine,
roué,
loose-liver,
pervert,
deviant,
deviate,
perv,
retrograde,
dissolute,
degenerate
verb
• decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally.
• "the quality of life had degenerated"
Similar:
deteriorate,
decline,
sink,
slip,
slide,
worsen,
get/grow worse,
take a turn for the worse,
lapse,
fail,
fall off,
slump,
go downhill,
regress,
retrogress,
decay,
rot,
go to rack and ruin,
go to pot,
go to the dogs,
hit the skids,
go down the tubes,
go down the toilet,
go to the pack,
retrograde,
devolve,
waste away,
waste,
atrophy,
weaken,
become debilitated,
Origin:
late 15th century: from Latin degeneratus ‘no longer of its kind’, from the verb degenerare, from degener ‘debased’, from de- ‘away from’ + genus, gener- ‘race, kind’.
