Beggarly vs Degenerate - What's the difference?
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In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
* Jeremy Taylor
(by extension) inadequate or meagre.
(of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
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* Jonathan Swift
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(of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
(of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
(mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
(physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
To lose good or desirable qualities.
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To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
Beggarly is a related term of degenerate.
As adjectives the difference between beggarly and degenerate
is that beggarly is in the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible while degenerate is (of qualities) having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.As an adverb beggarly
is in an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.As a noun degenerate is
one is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.As a verb degenerate is
to lose good or desirable qualities.beggarly
English
Adjective
(er)- beggarly fellow
- beggarly rags
- Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* beggarlinessdegenerate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- faint-hearted and degenerate king
- degenerate from their ancient blood
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- ''The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.
Derived terms
* (physics) degenerate matterNoun
(en noun)- You are a degenerate , boy. You're a disgrace to your ancestors.
Verb
(degenerat)- His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
- 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.