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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of degenerate with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- R. Alan Brooks: When the world is burning, is art a waste of time?
degenerate art.
- Definition summary
- (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
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How to pronounce degenerate
R. Alan Brooks: When the world is burning, is art a waste of time?
degenerate art.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “degenerate”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
- (of a person or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt. ABR
- Having lost functionality in general.
- (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
- (mathematics) Qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class.
- (mathematics, of an eigenvalue) Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
- (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
- [Noun]
- One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
- (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
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