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degenerate

English

Etymology

From Latin d?gener?tus, perfect passive participle of d?gener? (to be inferior to one's ancestors, to become unlike one's race or kind, fall from ancestral quality), from d?gener (inferior to one’s predecessors), from d?- (off, away from) +? genus (birth, descent); see genus.

Analyzable as de- +? generate

Pronunciation

  • (adjective, noun) IPA(key): /d??d??n???t/
  • (verb) IPA(key): /d??d??n??e?t/

Adjective

degenerate (comparative more degenerate, superlative most degenerate)

  1. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
    • faint-hearted and degenerate king
  2. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
    • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Verses on St. Patrick's Well
      As you grew more degenerate and base, I sent you millions of the croaking race
  3. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
    The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.
  4. (mathematics, of an eigenvalue) Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
  5. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.

Derived terms

  • (physics) degenerate matter

Translations

Noun

degenerate (plural degenerates)

  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.

Translations

Verb

degenerate (third-person singular simple present degenerates, present participle degenerating, simple past and past participle degenerated)

  1. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
    His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
    • 1870, Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (page 170)
      Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.
  2. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

Derived terms

  • degeneration

Translations

References

Further reading

  • degenerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • degenerate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Adjective

degenerate

  1. feminine plural of degenerato

Noun

degenerate f

  1. plural of degenerata

Verb

degenerate

  1. inflection of degenerare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

degenerate

  1. feminine plural of degenerato

Latin

Verb

d?gener?te

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?gener?

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perverse

English

Etymology

From Old French pervers, from Latin perversum, past participle of pervertere > per- 'thoroughly' + vertere 'to turn'. So, "thoroughly turned".

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /p??v?s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??v??s/
  • Hyphenation: per?verse
  • Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

perverse (comparative more perverse or perverser, superlative most perverse or perversest)

  1. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
    •     I felt most alive when I felt most perverse. At college, sleeping with boys had a perverse quality. I slept with a boy friend of one of my girl friends, and I was proud of it. I bragged about it because I had done something perverse. Another time, I slept with a man, fat and ugly, who paid me for it. I was very proud. I felt I had the ability to do something different.
  2. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.
  3. (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.

Antonyms

  • docile
  • innocent

Derived terms

  • perversely
  • perverseness
  • perversity

Translations

Anagrams

  • persever, preserve

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

perverse

  1. Inflected form of pervers

French

Adjective

perverse

  1. feminine singular of pervers

Anagrams

  • préserve, préservé

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

perverse

  1. inflection of pervers:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

perverse

  1. feminine plural of perverso

Latin

Participle

perverse

  1. vocative masculine singular of perversus

References

  • perverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • perverse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • perverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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