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Degenerate vs Scandalous - What's the difference?

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Degenerate is a related term of scandalous.


As adjectives the difference between degenerate and scandalous

is that degenerate is (of qualities) having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal while scandalous is wrong, immoral, causing a scandal.

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.

degenerate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
  • * Shakespeare
    • faint-hearted and degenerate king
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • degenerate from their ancient blood
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author= , title=The Smallest Cell , volume=101, issue=2, page=83 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}
  • (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.
    • ''The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * (physics) degenerate matter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
    • You are a degenerate , boy. You're a disgrace to your ancestors.

    Verb

    (degenerat)
  • To lose good or desirable qualities.
    • His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
  • * 1870 , Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (page 170)
    • 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.
  • To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

    • Derived terms

    * degeneration

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    scandalous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • wrong, immoral, causing a scandal
  • * 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.
  • malicious, defamatory
  • * 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie
    • These be the scandalous reports of such / As loves not me, and hate my lord too much.
  • * 1887, Marie Corelli, Thelma
    • I always disregard gossip--it is generally scandalous , and seldom true.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=The closest Believe gets to scandalous is on the deluxe-edition bonus track “Maria,” a response song to the woman who accused Bieber of fathering her child in 2011.}}

    Derived terms

    * scandalously * scandalousness