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degenerate
Overview of noun degenerate
The noun degenerate has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate -- (a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior)
Overview of verb degenerate
The verb degenerate has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate -- (grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match")
Overview of adj degenerate
The adj degenerate has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast -- (unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate
=> reprobate, miscreant
=> wrongdoer, offender
=> bad person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate
=> fetishist
=> masochist
=> nymphomaniac, nympho
=> pederast, paederast, child molester
=> pedophile, paedophile
=> sadist
=> sadomasochist
=> satyr, lecher, lech, letch
=> sodomite, sodomist, sod, bugger
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate
=> reprobate, miscreant
Antonyms of noun degenerate
Member Holonyms of noun degenerate
Substance Holonyms of noun degenerate
Part Holonyms of noun degenerate
Member Meronyms of noun degenerate
Substance Meronyms of noun degenerate
Part Meronyms of noun degenerate
Meronyms of noun degenerate
Holonyms of noun degenerate
Attributes of noun degenerate
Derived Forms of noun degenerate
Domain of noun degenerate
Domain Terms of noun degenerate
Familiarity of noun degenerate
degenerate used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate
> reprobate, miscreant
=> pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate
=> scapegrace, black sheep
=> wretch
Meronyms of noun degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate
=> reprobate, miscreant
=> wrongdoer, offender
=> bad person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun degenerate
Grep of noun degenerate
degenerate
Antonyms of verb degenerate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> worsen, decline
=> change state, turn
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
=> languish, fade
=> waste, rot
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> worsen, decline
'Cause To' of verb degenerate
Derived Forms of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
RELATED TO>(adj) degenerative#1
=> degenerative
RELATED TO>(noun) degeneration#2
=> degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, decadency
RELATED TO>(noun) degeneration#1
=> degeneration, devolution
Domain of verb degenerate
Domain Terms of verb degenerate
Familiarity of verb degenerate
degenerate used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
> worsen, decline
=> inflame
=> sicken, come down
=> devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> deprive, impoverish
=> fail
=> tumble
=> slip, drop off, drop away, fall away
=> suffer
=> suffer, lose
=> regress, retrograde, retrogress
=> turn down
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb degenerate
Sense 1
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> worsen, decline
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Grep of verb degenerate
degenerate
Antonyms of adj degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
INDIRECT (VIA immoral, amoral) -> moral
INDIRECT (VIA moral, immoral) -> amoral, unmoral
Similarity of adj degenerate
1 sense of degenerate
Sense 1
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
=> immoral (vs. moral)(vs. amoral)
Pertainyms of adj degenerate
Attributes of adj degenerate
Domain of adj degenerate
Domain Terms of adj degenerate
Familiarity of adj degenerate
degenerate used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj degenerate
degenerate
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