Degenerate vs Slavish - What's the difference?
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(of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
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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.
Degenerate is a related term of slavish.
As adjectives the difference between degenerate and slavish
is that degenerate is (of qualities) having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal while slavish is in the manner of a slave; abject.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
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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.