Synonyms for degenerate
dɪˈdʒɛn əˌreɪt; -ər ɪt

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1. pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate(adj)

   a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

   Synonyms:
   deviant, pervert, deviate

   Antonyms:
   moral

2. debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast(verb)

   unrestrained by convention or morality

   "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

   Synonyms:
   luxuriant, loyal, sporting, quick, profuse, riotous, debauched, devalued, lush, extravagant, fast, dissolute, turbulent, libertine, truehearted, card-playing, disruptive, debased, tumultuous, betting, degraded, fast(a), flying, troubled, dissipated, exuberant, spendthrift, profligate, immobile, prodigal, firm

   Antonyms:
   moral

3. devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate(verb)

   grow worse

   "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"

   Synonyms:
   unload, leave out, dribble, send packing, drop off, return, drop down, sink, drip, deteriorate, overleap, strike down, throw, cast, fell, cut down, put down, neglect, fall, devolve, expend, dismiss, set down, flatten, pass, swing, shake off, throw off, throw away, dangle, drop, discharge, spend, overlook, knock off, miss, pretermit, cast off, send away, shed, omit

   Antonyms:
   moral

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1. degenerate

   Synonyms:
   deteriorate, grow worse, retrograde

   Antonyms:
   recover, improve, mend, advance

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1. degenerate(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   deteriorate, decline, decay, become worse, grow worse

2. degenerate(a.)

   Synonyms:
   inferior, mean, base, corrupt, fallen, degenerated

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1. degenerate(v)

   Synonyms:
   deteriorate, retrograde, decline

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1. List of paraphrases:

   degenerated, geek, pervert

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How to use degenerate in a sentence?

1. John Walsh:

   Mets fans are more degenerate.

2. Vaclav Havel:

   Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

3. Peter Drucker:

   Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

4. Hamadou Saley:

   We can protest peacefully to show our disapproval but things can only degenerate if authorities unjustly employ brutal force.

5. John Adams:

   [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

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