Synonyms for degenerate
dɪˈdʒɛn əˌreɪt; -ər ɪtde·gen·er·ate

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1. degenerate

   Synonyms:
   deteriorate, grow worse, retrograde

   Antonyms:
   recover, improve, mend, advance

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1. pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerateadjective

   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, fastverb

   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, degenerateverb

   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. degenerateverb

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

2. degenerateadjective

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

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1. degenerateverb

   Synonyms:
   deteriorate, retrograde, decline

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1. List of paraphrases for "degenerate":

   degenerated, geek, pervert

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1. Theodore Roosevelt:

   I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

2. John Walsh:

   Mets fans are more degenerate.

3. Christy Smith:

   I’m calling it what it is. Radicalization and violence from extremists is the direct result of people like my opponent @RepMikeGarcia, mr. Pelosi and the family are owed an apology from you Mike. The people of this country deserve better than your abject degenerate politics.

4. Ziyad Al-Aly:

   We need to get them the treatments they need so this does not degenerate into a much larger crisis, just because of the enormity of COVID in the U.S., the numbers here represent really millions of people.

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.