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/dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/ · adjective
(of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal..
faint-hearted and degenerate king
But what can Cato do Againſt a World, a baſe degenerate World, That courts the Yoke, and bows the Neck to Cæſar?
As you grew more degenerate and base, I sent you millions of the croaking race
If my boy is not tempted to gamble at a fashionable card party he will never learn from the degenerate, blackleg gamblers in the joint.
The author explores the gap between the degenerate, elitist society of the domes and the working population. He criticizes the world of luxury and ease that easily ignores the sufferings of the majority.
What are the odds that an alcoholic and degenerate gambler with no money management skills could survive in a city that ate addicts for lunch and dreams for dinner?
It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.
Use degenerate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Degenerate means (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal..
Common synonyms include profligate, libertine, riotous, immoral.
Possible antonyms include plain, recover, recuperate, convalesce.
faint-hearted and degenerate king
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