degenerate

Meanings

Adjective

• Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal; an immoral or corrupt person.
• Having lost good or desirable qualities.
• Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
• Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
• Having the same quantum energy level.

Noun

• One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.

Verb

• To lose good or desirable qualities.
• To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

Origin

• From Latin dēgenerātus, perfect passive participle of dēgenerō, from dēgener, from dē- + genus; see genus.
• Analyzable as de- + generate