degenerate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.
    — In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.
动词 v.
  1. To lose good or desirable qualities. intransitive
    — His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
  2. To cause to lose good or desirable qualities. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
  2. Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
    — faint-hearted and degenerate king
  3. Having lost functionality in general.
    — It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
  4. 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.
  5. Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.
    — A degenerate circle, having radius zero, consists of a single point.
  6. Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
  7. Having the same quantum energy level.

词形变化

more degenerate comparative most degenerate superlative degenerates plural degenerates present,singular,third-person degenerating participle,present degenerated participle,past degenerated past

词汇关系

衍生词
degenerate conic degenerately degenerate matrix degenerate matter degenerateness degenerative hemidegenerate neutron-degenerate matter nondegenerate non-degenerate undegenerate degeneration neurodegenerated neurodegenerating nondegenerated undegenerated undegenerating
相关词
regenerate ungenerate

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin dēgenerātus. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
词源 2
From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Compare French dégénéré.
词源 3
From Latin degenerō + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare Italian degenerare, French dégénérer (and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, degener). By surface analysis, de- + generate.
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