DEGENERATE

10 letters 12 Scrabble points

Definition of DEGENERATE

noun
  1. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral person.

    "In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy."

verb
  1. To lose good or desirable qualities.

    "His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital."

  2. To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

adjective
  1. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.

  2. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.

  3. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.

Source: Wiktionary

Word Details

Letters D E G E N E R A T E
Length 10 letters
Scrabble Score 12 points

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