Degenerate is an English word with synonyms like debauched or miscreant. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Degenerate meaning
- Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
- Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt. ABR
- Having lost functionality in general.
Synonyms of Degenerate
Using Degenerate
- The main meaning on this page is: Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal. | Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt. ABR | Having lost functionality in general.
- Useful related words include: debauched, miscreant, reprobate, deviate.
- In the example corpus, degenerate often appears in combinations such as: degenerate into, to degenerate, the degenerate.
Context around Degenerate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Degenerate
- In this selection, "degenerate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, complete, single, entangled, bilinear, scalar and geometric stand out and add context to how "degenerate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a complete degenerate and along the degenerate dimensions. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "degenerate" sits close to words such as abiodun, abundantly and activates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with degenerate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
While the scene is degenerate, this is indeed Lolita and Humbert. (11 words)
But there are other forces sustaining this culture of degenerate liberty. (11 words)
He tells them to take down their degenerate website right away. (11 words)
More generally, if a degenerate geometric algebra is allowed, then the orthogonal matrix is replaced by a block matrix that is orthogonal in the nondegenerate block, and the diagonal matrix has zero-valued entries along the degenerate dimensions. (38 words)
According to JAF, “The situation, if not resisted, can only worsen and degenerate into full blown anarchy in the not too distant future, hence the imperative necessity to prepare for mass resistance and popular action. (35 words)
Kenny and his parents were interviewed by CBS News in 1999He argued that many of the haters likening day traders to degenerate gamblers likely had long-term stock positions of their own. (32 words)
Self centered expecting to be served instantly no matter what, a complete Degenerate! (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
For v, w in R 4 introduce the degenerate bilinear form : This degenerate scalar product projects distance measurements in R 4 onto the R 3 hyperplane.
More generally, if a degenerate geometric algebra is allowed, then the orthogonal matrix is replaced by a block matrix that is orthogonal in the nondegenerate block, and the diagonal matrix has zero-valued entries along the degenerate dimensions.
After that, Naga dies in Thabes and leaves behind her daughter, Tiki, in a deep slumber as she fears that her powers w ould cause her to degenerate.
Anyone else that keeps watching this is probably just a degenerate gambler.
Kenny and his parents were interviewed by CBS News in 1999He argued that many of the haters likening day traders to degenerate gamblers likely had long-term stock positions of their own.
Missionaries, officials and journalists spread the idea that the people of Malaga Island were degenerate.
Self centered expecting to be served instantly no matter what, a complete Degenerate!
This implies that diseases that could be detected and managed on time will be left to degenerate into an epidemic level with devastating consequences for the population.
According to JAF, “The situation, if not resisted, can only worsen and degenerate into full blown anarchy in the not too distant future, hence the imperative necessity to prepare for mass resistance and popular action.
According to them, happenings in the Kano emirate could escalate and degenerate into chaos if not carefully handled.
Persons are more likely to have problems with the shoulder as they grow older, especially after age 60. This is because the soft tissues surrounding the shoulder tend to degenerate with age.
Summing up the results, the authors of the paper underlined that J0526 could be the shortest-orbital-period single-degenerate detached binary.
While the scene is degenerate, this is indeed Lolita and Humbert.
A Korean student curled her lip in disgust and said “hip hop is degenerate music”.
But there are other forces sustaining this culture of degenerate liberty.
He tells them to take down their degenerate website right away.
His writings clearly show that the Maltese sought a moderate freedom of the press rather than an absolute freedom that could degenerate into immorality or bring about offences to religious sentiments.
On top of that, John Constantine is a consulting member of the team, meaning the degenerate sorcerer is always hovering around.
The team briefly described the quantum state preparation for the polarization entangled degenerate photon pairs generated from the Signac loop.
Those that genuinely protested don’t mean evil, or to watch the country degenerate into anarchy or civil unrest.
Common combinations with degenerate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- degenerate into 16×
- to degenerate 12×
- the degenerate 10×
- and degenerate 7×
- as degenerate 7×
- of degenerate 6×
- degenerate and 5×
- not degenerate 4×
- is degenerate 3×
- degenerate art 3×