n. 25B6; adjective
a degenerate form of classicism : DEBASED, degraded, corrupt, impure; formal vitiated.
her degenerate brother : CORRUPT, decadent, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, reprobate, profligate; sinful, ungodly, immoral, unprincipled, amoral, dishonourable, disreputable, unsavoury, sordid, low, ignoble.
pure, moral.
25B6; noun a group of degenerates : REPROBATE, debauchee, profligate, libertine, roué, loose-liver.
25B6; verb
their quality of life had degenerated : DETERIORATE, decline, slip, slide, worsen, lapse, slump, go downhill, regress, retrogress; go to rack and ruin; informal go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, go down the toilet.
the muscles started to degenerate : WASTE (AWAY), atrophy, weaken.
improve.