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degenerate
3 ENTRIES FOUND:
degenerates; degenerated; degenerating
degenerates; degenerated; degenerating
Learner's definition of DEGENERATE
[no object]
: to change to a worse state or condition : to become worse, weaker, less useful, etc.恶化；衰退；退化 — often + into
- As the disease progresses, the patient's health will degenerate [=deteriorate] rapidly.随着病情发展，这个病人的身体状况将会迅速恶化。
- Experts fear that the country is degenerating into chaos.专家们担心这个国家将陷入混乱。
- The meeting degenerated into a shouting match.这次会议沦为了一场口水大战。
Learner's definition of DEGENERATE
[more degenerate; most degenerate]
: having low moral standards : not honest, proper, or good堕落的；颓废的
- He criticizes what he believes is a degenerate society.他对他所认为的堕落社会提出批评。
de·gen·er·ate di-ˈjen-rət 
-ˈje-nə-,
dē-
2
mathematics : being simpler (as by having a factor or constant equal to zero) than the typical case
degenerately adverb
degenerateness noun
de·gen·er·ate di-ˈje-nə-ˌrāt
dē-
degenerated; degenerating; degenerates
5
biology : to evolve or develop into a less autonomous (see autonomous sense 2a) or less functionally active form
: to cause to degenerate
de·gen·er·ate di-ˈjen-rət
-ˈje-nə-,
dē-
: one that is degenerate (see degenerate entry 1) : such as
b
: a sexual pervert
c
anthropology : one showing signs of reversion (see reversion sense 3a) to an earlier culture stage
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Adjective He criticizes what he believes is a degenerate society. a degenerate society in which people had no sense of being citizens, only consumers Verb over the years the community-minded organization degenerated into a club for loafers Noun a couple of degenerates on a crime spree a degenerate who is uninterested in anything but his own gratification
Recent Examples on the Web
Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 30 Apr. 2022 Unfortunately, the governor has heard from his top-rate prisoner Tom Christie that Jamie is well-respected among the lads and requests that Mac Dubh tightens up the degenerate brood. Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022 The welfare state can eradicate poverty by distributing income to all non-workers — or Manchin can falsely smear poor people as degenerate drug addicts and protect rich people (like himself, incidentally) from higher taxes. Ryan Cooper, The Week, 20 Dec. 2021 Fiona Nova and Will Neff; rising livestreamer CodeMiko; and a degenerate rat-puppet named Ratty. Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021 Prior to the GameStop madness, when the subreddit Wall Street Bets was a quieter community of degenerate gamblers, members tracked Paul Pelosi’s market moves, often treating them as a joke about their own compulsive trading. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021 Instead of rejecting Ji-Yoon’s degenerate boyfriend, her father sees him safely home. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2021 Prior to the GameStop madness, when the subreddit Wall Street Bets was a quieter community of degenerate gamblers, members tracked Paul Pelosi’s market moves, often treating them as a joke about their own compulsive trading. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021 The Nazis viewed French culture as degenerate and dangerous but also as a useful distraction to keep Parisians from rebelling. Timothy Schaffert, WSJ, 23 July 2021 John Blake, CNN, 24 July 2022 Elections do matter, and debates about ideas can certainly degenerate into navel-gazing exercises. Samuel Gregg, National Review, 19 June 2022 In response, China may become more inward looking, even degenerate into another hermit kingdom. Yanzhong Huang, CNN, 30 June 2022 The balance works fairly well, until the proceedings degenerate in the final act into the sort of manic, over-the-top vehicular mayhem that brings the film closer to an animated version of the Fast and Furious franchise. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2022 There is a tradition in far-right propagandist literature, to which Bronze Age Pervert is a modern-day inheritor, of a white male hero who rises up against a liberal, racially mixed, feminist, and/or otherwise degenerate society. Ian Allen, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2022 Your instinct here is to loll, sprawl, degenerate, create crumbs. James Parker, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2022 History can degenerate into nostalgia from an imaginary golden age, or inspire a utopian quest to erase the past altogether. Richard Cohen, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2022 But just as language can illuminate thought and regenerate politics, so too language can be used to obscure thought and degenerate politics. Mark Satta, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022 Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 28 May 2022 Griswold effectively fashioned the portrait of the artist as an erratic degenerate. New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022 When someone has Alzheimer's disease, the person's brain cells that retrieve, process and store information degenerate and die, according to the Alzheimer's Association. Kristen Rogers, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021 The activities often took place at cast members’ ancestral plantations, but sometimes — and this is how Bonaparte, who is not a degenerate, comes in — at Bonaparte’s restaurants. Anna Peele, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2021 In his most famous exchange from the movie, Sally Kellerman’s Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a degenerate doctor as Donald Sutherland’s Hawkeye Pierce could reach a position of responsibility in the U.S. Army. Andrew Dealton, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2019 Adam Sandler plays a lying degenerate gambler in Uncut Gems, which in its sordid candor turns out to be one of the grabbiest films of the year. Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Dec. 2019 In his most famous exchange from the movie, Sally Kellerman's Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a degenerate doctor as Donald Sutherland's Hawkeye Pierce could reach a position of responsibility in the U.S. Army. CBS News, 8 Dec. 2019 Besides, too great a concern with origin degenerates too easily into a concern with purity, and folklore is most impure. Kevin Young, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019 See More
Adjective
There was a glorious point in the ‘90s when Matt Damon seemed only to play unassuming boy genius to his degenerate friends, and Rounders is arguably his finest portrayal of the golden boy archetype. Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 30 Apr. 2022 Unfortunately, the governor has heard from his top-rate prisoner Tom Christie that Jamie is well-respected among the lads and requests that Mac Dubh tightens up the degenerate brood. Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022 The welfare state can eradicate poverty by distributing income to all non-workers — or Manchin can falsely smear poor people as degenerate drug addicts and protect rich people (like himself, incidentally) from higher taxes. Ryan Cooper, The Week, 20 Dec. 2021 Fiona Nova and Will Neff; rising livestreamer CodeMiko; and a degenerate rat-puppet named Ratty. Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021 Prior to the GameStop madness, when the subreddit Wall Street Bets was a quieter community of degenerate gamblers, members tracked Paul Pelosi’s market moves, often treating them as a joke about their own compulsive trading. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021 Instead of rejecting Ji-Yoon’s degenerate boyfriend, her father sees him safely home. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2021 Prior to the GameStop madness, when the subreddit Wall Street Bets was a quieter community of degenerate gamblers, members tracked Paul Pelosi’s market moves, often treating them as a joke about their own compulsive trading. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021 The Nazis viewed French culture as degenerate and dangerous but also as a useful distraction to keep Parisians from rebelling. Timothy Schaffert, WSJ, 23 July 2021 Verb
Gorski also notes that many devout Black Americans have exhibited a form of patriotism that does not degenerate into Christian nationalism. John Blake, CNN, 24 July 2022 Elections do matter, and debates about ideas can certainly degenerate into navel-gazing exercises. Samuel Gregg, National Review, 19 June 2022 In response, China may become more inward looking, even degenerate into another hermit kingdom. Yanzhong Huang, CNN, 30 June 2022 The balance works fairly well, until the proceedings degenerate in the final act into the sort of manic, over-the-top vehicular mayhem that brings the film closer to an animated version of the Fast and Furious franchise. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2022 There is a tradition in far-right propagandist literature, to which Bronze Age Pervert is a modern-day inheritor, of a white male hero who rises up against a liberal, racially mixed, feminist, and/or otherwise degenerate society. Ian Allen, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2022 Your instinct here is to loll, sprawl, degenerate, create crumbs. James Parker, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2022 History can degenerate into nostalgia from an imaginary golden age, or inspire a utopian quest to erase the past altogether. Richard Cohen, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2022 But just as language can illuminate thought and regenerate politics, so too language can be used to obscure thought and degenerate politics. Mark Satta, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2022 Noun
Nothing can top Penny Marshall’s 1992 movie about women playing baseball in the ’40s — Tom Hanks as a lovable degenerate? Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 28 May 2022 Griswold effectively fashioned the portrait of the artist as an erratic degenerate. New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022 When someone has Alzheimer's disease, the person's brain cells that retrieve, process and store information degenerate and die, according to the Alzheimer's Association. Kristen Rogers, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021 The activities often took place at cast members’ ancestral plantations, but sometimes — and this is how Bonaparte, who is not a degenerate, comes in — at Bonaparte’s restaurants. Anna Peele, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2021 In his most famous exchange from the movie, Sally Kellerman’s Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a degenerate doctor as Donald Sutherland’s Hawkeye Pierce could reach a position of responsibility in the U.S. Army. Andrew Dealton, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2019 Adam Sandler plays a lying degenerate gambler in Uncut Gems, which in its sordid candor turns out to be one of the grabbiest films of the year. Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Dec. 2019 In his most famous exchange from the movie, Sally Kellerman's Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a degenerate doctor as Donald Sutherland's Hawkeye Pierce could reach a position of responsibility in the U.S. Army. CBS News, 8 Dec. 2019 Besides, too great a concern with origin degenerates too easily into a concern with purity, and folklore is most impure. Kevin Young, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
Adjective, Verb, and Noun
Middle English degenerat, from Latin degeneratus, past participle of degenerare to degenerate, from de- + gener-, genus race, kind — more at kin
First Known Use
Adjective
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1545, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
Noun
1555, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of degenerate was in the 15th century verb
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