Synonyms of the word

degenerate

• adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to…
• adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
• adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
• adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as…
• adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
• n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
• v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

debauched

• adj. Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted;…
• v. simple past tense and past participle of debauch.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

degraded

• adj. Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
• adj. (biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain…
• adj. (heraldry) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the…
• v. simple past tense and past participle of degrade.

deteriorate

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
• v. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered.

deviant

• adj. Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
• n. A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
• n. A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.

deviate

• n. (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
• n. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic…
• v. (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

devolve

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
• v. (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially…
• v. (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To degenerate; to break down.

dissipated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of dissipate.
• adj. Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure.

dissolute

• adj. Unrestrained by morality.
• adj. Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

fast

• adj. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
• adj. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
• adj. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now only in set phrases like "fast friend".).
• adj. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
• adj. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
• adj. (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
• adj. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
• adj. (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or…
• adj. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
• adj. (colloquial) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
• adj. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
• adj. (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
• adv. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved.
• adv. (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly.
• adv. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near.
• adv. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time.
• adv. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
• n. (Britain, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination,…
• interj. (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.
• v. (intransitive) To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things,…
• n. The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.
• n. The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.

immoral

• adj. Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law.

libertine

• n. (historical) Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
• n. One who is freethinking in religious matters.
• n. Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety;…
• adj. Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.

miscreant

• adj. Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
• adj. (theology) Holding an incorrect religious belief.
• n. One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
• n. One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.
• n. (theology) One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.

pervert

• n. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense…
• n. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
• v. (transitive) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to…
• v. To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
• v. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

profligate

• adj. Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
• adj. Immoral; abandoned to vice.
• adj. (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
• n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
• n. An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
• v. (obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.

reprobate

• adj. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
• adj. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
• adj. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
• n. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
• n. An individual with low morals or principles.
• v. To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
• v. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
• v. To refuse, set aside.

riotous

• adj. having the characteristics of a riot.
• adj. causing, inciting or taking part in a riot.
• adj. unrestrained and boisterous; degenerate or dissolute.

worsen

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.