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Learned borrowing from Latin dēgenerātus. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Compare French dégénéré.

From Latin degenerō + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare Italian degenerare, French dégénérer (and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, degener). By surface analysis, de- + generate.

155 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: zvetënoj — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Bulgarian: изроден (izroden) — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Bulgarian: дегенерирал (degeneriral) — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Chinese Mandarin: 惡化 /恶化 (èhuà) — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Chinese Mandarin: 墮落 /堕落 (duòluò) — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Chinese Mandarin: 變質 /变质 (biànzhì) — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Danish: degenereret — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Finnish: rappeutunut — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Finnish: rappioitunut — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Finnish: rappio- — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• French: dégradé — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• French: dégénéré — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Galician: dexenerado — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• German: entartet — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Hebrew: מנוון (menuvan) — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Italian: snaturato — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Latin: dēgener — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Māori: pūwhenua — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Māori: tāmatemate — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Polish: zdegenerowany — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Portuguese: degenerado — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Romanian: degenerat — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Romanian: degradat — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Russian: дегради́ровавший (degradírovavšij) — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Spanish: degenerado — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Tamil: சீரழிந்த (cīraḻinta) — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Turkish: dejenere — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Turkish: yoz — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Turkish: yozlaşmış — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Turkish: soysuz — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Ottoman Turkish: صویسز (soysuz) — having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal
• Danish: degenereret — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Finnish: rappeutunut — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Finnish: rappioitunut — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Finnish: rappio- — having lost good or desirable qualities
• French: dégradé — having lost good or desirable qualities
• French: dégénéré — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Galician: dexenerado — having lost good or desirable qualities
• German: widernatürlich — having lost good or desirable qualities
• German: dekadent — having lost good or desirable qualities
• German: degeneriert — having lost good or desirable qualities
• German: entartet — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Hungarian: elfajult — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Italian: snaturato — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Italian: scellerato — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Italian: degenerato — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Māori: pūwhenua — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Polish: zdegenerowany — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Polish: zwyrodniały — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Portuguese: degenerado — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Russian: вы́родившийся (výrodivšijsja) — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Russian: вы́рожденный (výroždennyj) — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Russian: опусти́вшийся (opustívšijsja) — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Scottish Gaelic: daoidh — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Scottish Gaelic: truaillte — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Spanish: degenerado — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Tamil: சீரழிந்த (cīraḻinta) — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: dejenere — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: yozlaşmış — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: soysuz — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Ottoman Turkish: صویسز (soysuz) — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Ukrainian: ви́роджений (výrodženyj) — having lost good or desirable qualities
• Russian: вы́рожденный (výroždennyj) — qualitatively different, usually simpler, than typical objects of its class
• Finnish: degeneratiivinen — having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range
• Russian: вы́рожденный (výroždennyj) — having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range
• Danish: degenereret — having the same quantum energy level
• Dutch: ontaard — having the same quantum energy level
• Finnish: degeneroitunut — having the same quantum energy level
• German: entartet — having the same quantum energy level
• Russian: вы́рожденный (výroždennyj) — having the same quantum energy level
• Bulgarian: дегенера́т (degenerát) — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Finnish: rappioyksilö — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Finnish: rappioitunut — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• French: dégénéré — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• French: dépravé — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• German: Asozialer — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• German: Assi — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Irish: meatachán — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Japanese: 変質者 (henshitsusha) — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Māori: pouāwai — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Polish: degenerat — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Polish: degeneratka — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Portuguese: degenerado — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Russian: вы́родок (výrodok) — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Russian: дегенера́т (degenerát) — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Russian: дегенера́тка (degenerátka) — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Russian: вырожде́нец (vyroždénec) — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Scottish Gaelic: daoidh — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Scottish Gaelic: droch-dhuine — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Serbo-Croatian: дегенѐрик — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Serbo-Croatian: degenèrik — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Spanish: degenerado — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Spanish: depravado — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Turkish: soysuz — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Turkish: dejenere — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Ukrainian: ви́родок (výrodok) — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Ukrainian: дегенера́т (dehenerát) — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Ukrainian: дегенера́тка (dehenerátka) — one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature
• Bulgarian: израждам се (izraždam se) — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Bulgarian: дегенерирам (degeneriram) — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Catalan: degenerar — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Chinese Mandarin: 惡化 /恶化 (èhuà) — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Dutch: ontaarden — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Finnish: rappioitua — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Finnish: rappeutua — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Finnish: degeneroitua — to lose good or desirable qualities
• French: dégénérer — to lose good or desirable qualities
• French: se dégrader — to lose good or desirable qualities
• German: entarten — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Ido: degenerar — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Irish: meathlaigh — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Italian: degenerare — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Japanese: 退化する (taika suru) — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Māori: tipuheke — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Māori: tauheke — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Māori: pūwhenua — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Polish: degenerować się — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Polish: zwyrodnieć — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Polish: wykolejać się — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Portuguese: degenerar — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Romanian: degenera — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Romanian: degrada — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Russian: вырождаться (vyroždatʹsja) — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Russian: дегенерировать (degenerirovatʹ) — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Scottish Gaelic: rach bhuaithe — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Serbo-Croatian: на̀задовати — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Serbo-Croatian: nàzadovati — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Spanish: degenerar — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Spanish: degenerarse — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Swedish: degenerera — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Swedish: urarta — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Tamil: சீரழி (cīraḻi) — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: dejenere olmak — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: yozlaşmak — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: bozulmak — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: soysuzlaşmak — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: dejenereleşmek — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Ukrainian: виро́джуватися (vyródžuvatysja) — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Ukrainian: ви́родитися (výrodytysja) — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Ukrainian: дегенерува́ти (deheneruváty) — to lose good or desirable qualities
• Dutch: ontaarden — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Finnish: rappioittaa — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Finnish: rappeuttaa — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Finnish: degeneroida — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• French: dégénérer — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• French: dégrader — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• German: entarten — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Portuguese: degenerar — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Spanish: degenerar — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Tamil: சீரழி (cīraḻi) — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: dejenere etmek — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: yozlaştırmak — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: bozmak — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: soysuzlaştırmak — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities
• Turkish: dejenereleştirmek — to cause to lose good or desirable qualities